Quotes of the Day

The President of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is seen upon his arrival at the Franco-African summit in Paris, February 20, 2003.
Monday, Jun. 07, 2010

Open quoteIt's shameful that UNESCO ever agreed to honor one of the world's worst dictators with a prize in his name.Close quote

  • LISA MISOL,
  • Human Rights Watch researcher, on a new U.N. prize financed by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, president of Equatorial Guinea, whom human-rights groups accuse of embezzling hundreds of millions of dollars from the oil-rich West African state
Photo: Charles Platiau / Reuters | Source: NYT