The Jewish community was extremely small in Malabo.

The Equatorial Guinean government — ruled by a president who seized power in a 1979 coup has already has financed the construction of an Israeli-run hospital in Bata, the main city in the continental part of the country, which employs more than 100 Israeli doctors and nurses.

An unknown number of Israeli advisers also provides military training to Equatoguinean soldiers guarding their Spanish-speaking nation’s remote borders with French-speaking Cameroon and Gabon.