Back at work after their summer holidays, some of Paris’s most prominent lawyers are poring over their African cases. While Robert Bourgi is omnipresent in political spheres, Pierre Haik, Christian Charriere-Bournazel, Mario Stasi, George Arama, Danyele Palazo-Gauthier and Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi [.
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The World Bank has given its agreement in principle to lending CFA 80 billion ($ 159 million) to restore the [...]
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President Laurent Gbagbo says he will not “go quietly” during Ivory Coast’s October 31 presidential election, but intends to fight and win the contest. Numerous militias and civilian organisations are behind him.
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Gbagbo has not quite divided the opposition, but he has brought a few lost sheep back into the FPI fold.
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Abdoulaye Bio-Tchane, the president of the West African Development Bank and former Africa head of the IMF is making a play for Benin's presidency.
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Mohsen Hojeij’s Commisimpex has won a new legal victory against the Congolese state.
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A possible government reshuffle, new nominations to be made among his senior advisors, cash-strapped diplomats to deal with… After three weeks' vacation in Spain, Sassou is back to work with a vengeance.
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A year after his election as president, Ali Bongo is still getting to grips with the political scene while his pact with his fang PM is under strain.
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Equatorial Guinea’s president Teodoro Obiang Nguema is due to get [...]
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Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe was absent from celebrations to mark [...]
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Edouardo Dos Santos is delighted that arms dealer Viktor Bout [...]
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Formerly Europe’s leading plywood manufacturer, Plysorol is on the verge [...]
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A significant presence in the African marketplace, the Lorient, Brittany-based [...]
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Gabon’s mobile telephone operator Azur has reached the 200,000 client [...]
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Satcon Africa, digital terrestrial distributor of satellite channels in Gabon, [...]
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After the 2009 launch of the project to refurbish the [...]
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The London-based Oxford Business Group has finished editing its "Emerging [...]
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A native of the Ogooue-Maritime province, capital Port Gentil, Alain [...]
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In his fifties, Cyprien Bama is the CEO of Ivoire [...]
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Togolese of Beninois origin, Messan Kangni, 55, heads the agri-business [...]
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