The forced resignation of Aliou Sall (WAN 803), Macky Sall's younger brother who for a long time has been the business partner of the mining entrepreneur Frank Timis, has left the field open for allies of the first lady, Marieme [.
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Henri Konan Bedie is seeking to form a united front with Laurent Gbagbo and Guillaume Soro for the presidential election of October 2020. An initiative that the Ivorian presidency is trying to torpedo.
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Once shepherded around Washington by the flamboyant Republican financier Elliott Broidy, the Angolan president has turned to the former Sonangol lobbyist to represent him in the States.
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Ali Bongo's ambitious chief of staff, who for a long time has had little purchase over the intelligence and security services, has managed to get several of his allies appointed in this domain.
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The presidency's flagship project, the Yaounde-Douala highway, will cost three times more than the financing provided by Beijing, an internal Ministry of the Economy study shows.
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Having discussed the situation in the Sahel with Alassane Ouattara on 9 July, Emmanuel Macron is due to chair a [...]
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Since his return to Kinshasa on 24 June (WAN 803), Jean-Pierre Bemba has been relying on his spokesman and the [...]
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Deprived of his title of "high representative" of the Gabonese president (WAN 797), Maixent Accrombessi is trying to secure a [...]
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Discreet landings | Return | Cash | Conflab | Out of play
Alassane Ouattara will make a state visit to Moscow before [...]
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On 7 July, Patrice Talon travelled to the African Union [...]
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The Congolese president Felix Tshisekedi is set to visit Paris [...]
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It will now be on 11 July, rather than on [...]
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Following the visit of the French armed forces minister Florence [...]
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For the last six months, envoys from the American airport security firm Securiport have been making a beeline for the [...]
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Supported by the litigation funding firm Calunius, construction firm KCI has had its request for arbitration with Gabon rejected.
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Put up for sale in early June, BNP's branches in Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea have attracted several offers from west African financial institutions.
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Having acted as an intermediary between the Kabila administration and its lobbyists in Washington, the Israeli firm Mer Group is [...]
Ait Ben Ali Mohamed, the ex-director of the Gabonese outpost [...]
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China Railways Construction Corp (CRCC) was given a stern dressing [...]
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Clean Africa, which is run by the former minister Pacome [...]
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Djembe Consultants, the communications agency specialising in Africa run by the American Mitchell Prather, recently signed a contract with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) to promote the activities of the bank on the African continent.
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The Conference interafricaine de la prevoyance sociale (CIPRES), a pan-African [...]
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The accounts of the state media company Radiodiffusion television ivoirienne [...]
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For his "Africa Now" forum which was held on 12 [...]
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French ambassador in Brazzaville Bertrand Cochery is to succeed Philippe Lacoste at the French embassy in Djamena at the end [...]
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The Emirates are on the verge of establishing a base in northern Niger - a manoeuvre designed to counter Ankara's regional plans.
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With the current special envoy for the Sahel at the [...]
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The recent appointments of several allies of the Ivorian foreign [...]
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After a wait of several months, Patricia Mahoney was finally [...]
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The security advisor at the Senegalese Ministry of the Interior [...]
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The Chief Executive Officer of the public works firm CITP (Consortium international des travaux publics), the Gabonese-Malian businessman Seydou Kane, [...]
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A favourite of the Senegalese president Macky Sall, 34-year-old Abdou Karim Fofana may be the candidate of the presidential party, [...]
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The Nigerien general Oumarou Namata Gazama has been chosen by Mahamadou Issoufou to head up the joint force of the [...]
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On 2 July, the inspector general of the Congolese police under Joseph Kabila, Constantin Mudekereza Ntako aka "CMN", set up [...]
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