'Set up business in 4 days': Equatorial Guinea beckons Indian investments

"Concerns over human rights violations are unfounded and global investments have risen as the nation offers setting up a business within just 4 days," says Manuel Mbela Bama Ndong

Manuel Mbela Bama Ndong, Ambassador of the tiny West African nation of Equatorial Guinea with less than 12 lakh citizens, is promising India an equally vast investment opportunity in the country where President Ram Nath Kovind visited earlier this year. He tells Subhayan Chakraborty that concerns over human rights violations are unfounded and global investments have risen as the nation offers setting up a business within just 4 days. Edited extracts:

Foreign investors have pointed to the country's high rate of humans’ rights violations to justify not moving into the economy. What are your comments?

Equatorial Guinea is already a