A United Nations agency has suspended plans to grant a prize sponsored by Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema after lobbying by human rights groups. Mr Obiang is accused of rights abuses, rigging elections and corruption...The UN scientific and cultural agency, Unesco, said its executive board agreed to suspend the life sciences prize. It said it would continue consultations on the award's future...The suspension was welcomed by campaigners. Tutu Alicante, of EG Justice, said: "The way Teodoro Obiang has governed Equatorial Guinea undermines all the values Unesco stands for..." ...Equatorial Guinea's vast earnings from oil and gas should give its population of 600,000 people a theoretical income of $37,000 (£23,000) a year each. But most Equatorial Guineans live in poverty after 15 years of plentiful oil production.