Sand-storms are swirling around Niamey. Undermined by the insecurity that seems to have encircled Niger for the foreseeable future, President Mahamadou Issoufou has had to increase military spending to the detriment of other pressing needs.
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France's CMA CGM shipping company has decided to drop legal proceedings against Ivory Coast's governments in a dispute concerning the [...]
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Private security firms seem to have their work cut out for them in Central African Republic, a country that remains [...]
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It was party time at the Hotel Sofitel Ivoire on June 29, when Dominique Ouattara hosted a hosted a gala [...]
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Keen to have something to show for his term in office by the presidential elections in 2015, Alassane Ouattara has greenlit a project to renovate Abidjan’s main hospitals.
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Despite Abdoulaye Wade’s continued assertions that he is the Parti Democratique Senegalais’ ‘only constant’, with the ex-president tucked away in exile in France the party is now in the grip of a succession war.
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After numerous false starts Guinea’s general election looks set to take place in September, giving the electoral commission time to take into account a deal recently brokered between the government and the opposition.
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The recent choice of country to host the headquarters of the new region-wide maritime safety centre prompted a yet another Central African regional power-struggle.
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The French-speaking African magazine Forbes Afrique is behind a new Republic of Congo international conference designed to rival Gabon’s New York Forum Africa.
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Oil, as well as their father Omar Bongo’s estate, is behind a fresh feud between Ali Bongo and his sister Pascaline.
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Alexis Dipanda Mouéllé, an ethnic Abo from the coastal province [...]
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Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang is to give France the [...]
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Blaise Compaore did not mince his words when he addressed [...]
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French group Bouygues is poised to win the contract to [...]
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In a ruling handed down at the end of June, [...]
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Hama Saloum, the managing director of Cigale Finance, finalised the [...]
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After monopolizing the supermarket sector in Ivory Coast for two [...]
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The Ivorian government and Egis, the French transport, urban planning [...]
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In trouble with the government over the piles of domestic [...]
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The French overseas public broadcasting group Audiovisuel Exterieur de la [...]
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After rebuilding the Kango Bridge, some 100km inland from Libreville, [...]
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Louis Kanoha-Elenga, 55, President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's advisor on energy and [...]
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