The Ministry of Defence (Spanish: Ministerio de Defensa) is a department of the Government of Equatorial Guinea responsible for military administration.
It is the administrative and executive body of the Armed Forces of Equatorial Guinea.
It is under the supervision of the Vice President of Equatorial Guinea in charge of National Defense and Security, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue.
[1] After the 1979 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état in which Lieutenant Colonel Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo assumed the Presidency of the Republic from his uncle Francisco Macías Nguema and created the Supreme Military Council, a draft decree on "Organization" was drawn up.
A Spanish military delegation helped draft the reorganization of the Ministry of Defense in the 1980s.