Western military views on ECOWAS’s plans to retake northern Mali range from dubious to severely critical. "For the moment, it is a piece-meal plan that has been cobbled together in a makeshift way," a high-ranking French officer told West Africa [.
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The Central African president has unleashed his wrath on the crew of his personal helicopter.
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The French telecommunications company has deprived the Republic of Congo's civil aviation authority, the ANAC, of revenues totalling €700,000 in payment of a Congolese debt.
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The Rougier subsidiary Rougier Afrique International (RAI) posted a modest [...]
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The government of Central African Republic has contacted Paris lawyer [...]
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Unicon Development, headed by American-Congolese businessman Serge Pereira, is to [...]
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A furious President Thomas Boni Yayi pulled Canal 3 off [...]
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Societe Generale Congo (SGC), a subsidiary of the French bank [...]
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Bintou Toungara Kamara, the daughter of Ivory Coast’s mining, oil [...]
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Ivory Coast’s development minister, Albert Toikeusse-Mabri, and African integration minister, [...]
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A famous blogger who was once an all-out critic of [...]
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Constancia Nsue Mangue Equatorial Guinea’s highly powerful first lady, used [...]
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