France issues arrest warrant for son of Equatorial Guinea
president  Teodoro Nguema Obiang fails to show up for
questioning in corruption inquiry into three African leaders and
families Teodoro Nguema Obiang Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro
Nguema Obiang is also under investigation in the US where $70m
(£45m) of his assets have been seized. Photograph: Abdelhak
Senna/AFP/Getty Images  French police have issued an arrest
warrant for the son of Equatorial Guinea's president as part of
an investigation into African autocrats' suspected "ill-gotten
gains".  Teodoro Nguema Obiang had been called in for
questioning by financial fraud squad officers over allegations
of embezzling state funds, money laundering and breach of trust,
in Paris on Wednesday.  When the 41-year-old, known as Teodorin
or TNO, failed to show up, Roger Le Loire, the judge heading the
unprecedented French investigations into the assets of three
African heads of state and their families, immediately issued an
arrest warrant.  Police seized a fleet of