In the absence of the president Ali Bongo, who returned to Libreville on 27 November after a stay in London, the Gabonese courts swiftly launched an anti-corruption drive that is targeting as a priority the allies of the president's former [.
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The nine heads of state invited to Dakar by the new IMF boss Kristalina Georgieva have received a private, but stern lecture on abusing state guarantees.
The government-allied MoDem MP and former PR advisor, Bruno Fuchs, has been behind several African initiatives over the last year.
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Although the former Congolese president has officially withdrawn to his ranch in Katanga, several of his allies are already preparing his comeback.
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The visit of the Angolan president to Rome in mid-November came in the midst of a Vatican inquiry into the financial dealings of its former papal nuncio in Luanda.
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In the coming weeks, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) is due to publish a forensic audit of its accounts. [...]
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In late November, three weeks before his official departure from Lazard, the deputy head of the bank's financial advisory department, [...]
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Tensions between the ex-president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and his successor Mohamed Ould Ghazouani are threatening to undermine the delicate [...]
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Kong, a city of 30,000 inhabitants in the north-east of [...]
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Emmanuel Macron's first official visit to Ivory Coast, initially scheduled [...]
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It seems that each month now brings with it a [...]
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In a confidential directive addressed on 7 November to the [...]
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The peace accord signed in early November between the Chadian [...]
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With the presidential election in the Central African Republic in [...]
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The French bank has shortlisted two candidates to take over its subsidiaries in Mali, Burkina and Guinea, but one of the two firms is not to the liking of a wary Guinean government.
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Already partners in Mauritania and Gabon, the two infrastructure heavyweights Olam and Meridiam are pulling out all the stops to gain a foothold in Ivory Coast.
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Visiting Dakar in late November, the CEO of EDF, Jean-Bernard Lévy, discussed with the MD of Akilee the modalities of acquiring a stake in the Senegalese startup.
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The official announcement is unlikely to be made before the [...]
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As anticipated by the West Africa Newsletter (WAN 812), the [...]
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Made official on 21 November, the sale of the majority [...]
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Somewhat deterred by Radisson Blu's woes, which is mostly empty, [...]
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Six months after the liquidation of the Nantes-based construction project [...]
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The leading purchasers of cocoa beans for several years, Cargill [...]
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As it undergoes restructuring, the Ivorian subsidiary of the auditing [...]
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Two days after his appointment as boss of Eneo, the [...]
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With the promised Saudi contribution of €100 million to the G5 Sahel still not having materialised, France is now courting Riyadh's enemy Qatar.
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The secretary-general at the Malian president's office with rank of [...]
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The president of the African Development Bank (ADB), Akinwumi Adesina, [...]
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With the delegation of the International Monetary Fund (FMI) that [...]
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Since 18 November, the conditions of detention of the former [...]
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With Laurent Gbagbo having confided to several of his allies in recent days that he intends to run in the [...]
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Appointed in September as the chief of staff of the armed forces, the general and aviator Birame Diop has been [...]
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Officially scheduled for 9 February 2020, the parliamentary and local elections are causing a commotion within Paul Biya's Rassemblement démocratique [...]
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To prevent the disintegration of the Parti congolais du travail (PCT) amid a fractious leadership battle (WAN 808), President Denis [...]
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