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Our cooperation is informed by Pan-Africanism. It's not just sentimental. It is for our security, prosperity, historical & cultural reasons. pic.twitter.com/L3TUZ4EUNI

— Yoweri K Museveni (@KagutaMuseveni) April 26, 2017

The Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, said on Wednesday that Africa’s problem is due to lack of unity to counter its problems.

Speaking to the media at the Ugandan State House Obiang said that the African continent has potential to transform from its current state of hopelessness into a modernized part of the world but disunity among the 55 states was among the key problems limiting its progress.

“I remember our hero Gaddafi who used to promote this African solidarity but sadly most countries would not still agree with him … The instability Africa is suffering is due to the egoism of each country,” he was quoted by local media Daily Monitor.

We forget that we are Africans. Things are not moving in the right direction for our countries and it is not that Africa is not self-sufficient but Africans look at ourselves as people who cannot develop ourselves yet we have many resources. Africans think all civilisation lies in the Western world,” the report quotes him say.

With His Excellency Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, we attended the Joint Oil and Gas Convetion today in Kampala. pic.twitter.com/r0qzaSPHxx

— Yoweri K Museveni (@KagutaMuseveni) April 27, 2017

President Museveni and Obiang agreed to open embassies in Uganda and Equatorial Guinea, respectively to facilitate cooperation between the two nations.

President Obiang Nguema also revealed that his country will help Uganda in its [ongoing] attempts to fast-track commercial oil production by offering training in related fields, the report says.

President Obiang Nguema, is currently ranked as the longest serving non-traditional leader in the world with 37 years’ rule under his belt.