Following in the footsteps of his predecessor François Hollande, the French president Emmanuel Macron is intervening to shore up the Ivorian security apparatus to avoid any weakening of France's ‘strong position' south of the Sahara.
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The president will not be standing for re-election himself, but he fully intends to have a say over his succession. Analysis.
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The revision of the constitution sought by the president mirrors the path taken by his Togolese counterpart.
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The founder and boss of the country's leading producer of rice has been stripped of his executive functions and is taking legal action in Paris.
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Although prepared to dialogue with the armed groups, the president is not neglecting his own security and is sending his soldiers for training all around the world.
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The Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara has embarked on the construction [...]
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Under pressure due to the tense security situation in the [...]
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The general assembly of the Free and Accepted Masons of [...]
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The political love-in between Guillaume Soro and Henri Konan Bedie, [...]
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Alassane Ouattara has discreetly entrusted his friend Nicolas Sarkozy with [...]
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Parachuted in as a special adviser to the Congolese president on foreign funding (AEI 800 et WAN 759), Lucien Ebata [...]
Legal trouble combined with supply problems have prompted the Franco-Beninese businessman to seek the liquidation of one of his French companies.
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The former French president is set to lobby the Qataris to invest in Abidjan.
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Libreville has exploited the settling of part of its debt to the Veolia subsidiary to mount a public relations offensive, but underlying problems persist.
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On 9 November, the High Court in Pointe-Noire is due to hand down its ruling in the dispute between Pierre [...]
The American oil company Anadarko has decided to downsize its [...]
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Teranga Gold Corp is tipped to win the tender for [...]
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A transaction to raise funds of FCFA 80 billion (€121 [...]
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Scheduled for March 2018 at the latest, the shortlisting of [...]
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The defence minister recently awarded to a group of companies [...]
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The businessman Alain Kouadio, the CEO of the architecture and [...]
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The boss of the newly created construction company Societe gabonaise [...]
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Although ridiculed on opposition websites for having spelt the French word ‘paix' (peace) as ‘pays' (country) during a meeting with [...]
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On 30 October, the Ivorian defence minister and Grand Master of the Grande loge de Cote d'Ivoire (GLCI) Hamed Bakayoko, [...]
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The 61-year-old leader of the opposition party Parti souverainiste-ecologiste (PSE), Francis Hubert Aubame, will be one of the leading figures [...]
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Although he is at liberty after being briefly detained on 29 October in Paris (WAN 763), the legal difficulties of [...]
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The Beninese authorities have given MTN a fortnight to pay more than CFA Frs 134 billion (€204 million) in unpaid [...]
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Stephen Blewett, chief executive of the Benin subsidiary of South African telecommunications group MTN, has been given until November 24 [...]
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Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso aka "Kiki", who is tipped to become chairman of the Société nationale des pétroles du Congo [...]
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Commisimpex boss Mohsen Hojeij's vigorous efforts to recover the close to $1.2 billion owed him by the Congolese state (WAN [...]
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