Equatorial Guinea

JOHANNESBURG - Amnesty International says Equatorial Guinea has executed four alleged coup plotters in a matter of hours in what it calls a "pretense of justice." The main opposition party in the oil-rich but impoverished Central African nation described it as "political assassination." Amnesty International says the former military and government officials were abducted from neighboring Benin and held at a prison notorious for torture until they "confessed" to a February 2009 attack.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Equatorial Guinea's longtime leader is promising sweeping reforms in transparency and human rights, but an international group says it's empty posturing from a corrupt leader.