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African dictators take leaf out of Bush book

State radio in the tiny west African state of Equatorial Guinea has hailed the nation's leader as "the country's God".
In a programme called Bidze-Nduan (Bury the fire) which deals with "peace, tranquillity and the order reigning in the country" the radio declared that President Teodoro Obiang Nguema was "in permanent contact with the Almighty".
It said that the president was "like God in heaven" who has "all power over men and things".
"He can decide to kill without anyone calling him to account and without going to hell because it is God himself, with whom he is in permanent contact, and who gives him this strength," a presidential aide announced on the show.

[Perhaps the president has been getting tips from US counterpart George W Bush who was quoted in Israel's newspaper Ha'aretz as saying: "God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me, I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."]