While the Arab Spring may have raised the hopes of young people in Sub-Saharan Africa, on the whole rulers have managed to avoid regime changes and often made no attempt at transparency during the recent elections across the region.
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As West Africa Newsletter revealed last July, Georges Serre, currently serving as deputy managing director of the French Foreign Ministry's [...]
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Ivory Coast’s north and south were supposed to come together when Alassane Ouattara was elected president but diamonds continue to be mined illegally in the north of the country.
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A reduced clan of influential ministers and advisors have the ear of Benin’s increasingly cautious President Thomas Boni Yayi.
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The army purge ordered by President Blaise Compaore following a spate of attempted mutinies in 2011 has had a negative impact on morale in Burkina Faso’s military.
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Oil-rich Luanda is profiting from its economic boom to modernise its armed forces, with help from Israel.
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While pre-electoral France plays the waiting game, the Republic of Congo's impatient President Denis Sassou Nguesso has been busy doing deals with the BRICS.
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Equatorial Guinea is struggling to defend itself from the latest offensive by judges in the “Ill-Gotten Gains” scandal.
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After accompanying President Denis Sassou-Nguesso to Paris (WAS 639), Jean-Jacques [...]
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Thomas Boni Yayi’s election for one year as head of [...]
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Following his election as chairman of ECOWAS, Alassane Ouattara is [...]
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Earlier this month the Gabonese government awarded the contract for [...]
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Despite predictions that there will be sustained economic growth in [...]
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The French auditing and management advice firm Vigeo Enterprise is [...]
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Earlier this month the French Army awarded Libya Oil Tchad [...]
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U.S. giant General Electric (GE) opened a subsidiary in Abidjan, [...]
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In February Ivorian Prime Minister Guillaume Soro's office awarded the [...]
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Accused by several presidential advisors of allowing customs revenues to [...]
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The chairman of Cameroon’s Chamber of Commerce Industry, Mines and [...]
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Chairman of the employers’ organisation Association des Grandes Entreprises du [...]
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