Despite the protests of eleven other candidates who wish they had a greater share of the limelight, Ivory Coast’s upcoming presidential election is a three-man race between incumbent Laurent Gbagbo, former president Henri Konan Bedie and former prime minister Alassane [.
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With less than three weeks to go before Ivory Coast's October 31 presidential elections, the latest poll puts incumbent Laurent [...]
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Languishing in Abidjan’s notorious MACA prison since June 2008, the former heads of Ivory Coast’s cocoa and coffee producing sectors recently received a visit from Pascal Affi N’Guessan, the head of the Ivorian Popular Front.
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Benin’s opposition leader is up in arms over false reports that he owns a luxury apartment in the chic Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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The Burkinabe authorities have enlisted their envoys and two French generals in their search for the seven Areva and Satom employees kidnapped in Arlit on September 16.
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After a handful of uniformed soldiers pulled out guns and ran amok in Brazzaville at the beginning of October, Sassou N'Guesso is more determined than ever to bring the army into line.
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The Gabonese president’s stay in Paris at the end of September entailed a series of professional interviews in the most luxurious of settings. West Africa Newsletter takes you on a guided visit.
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Denis Sassou NGuesso will move into his new palace at the end of October.
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Some 100,000 Bidjan, local people whom the city of Abidjan [...]
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While Nadiani Bamba, Laurent Gbagbo’s second wife, is taking care [...]
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Francisca Espirito Santos, governor of Luanda, is tipped to become [...]
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Adji Oteth Ayassor, Togo’s finance minister, who handles all of [...]
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Ivorian businessman Kone Dossongui’s Atlantique group, could sell its 80% [...]
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France’s online betting specialist BR Gaming, the company behind the [...]
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Retired General Jean-Pierre Perez, the former French military advisor who [...]
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The French nuclear group Areva, whose security in different parts [...]
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Launched in 2007, the privatisation of Benin Telecom has yet [...]
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After the nomination October 4 of the president’s son Karim [...]
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Alphonse Obami-Itoua, 51, heads the transit firm Translo, owned by [...]
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A native of Ferkessedougou, northern Ivory Coast, Zoumana Goita, 45, [...]
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Fatou Niang heads the industrial fishing company Amerger Casamance, bought [...]
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