The home villages of many African leaders have reaped the benefits of their privileged position over the years. These fiefs attract finance and modern infrastructure of a kind that tend to exist nowhere else in the country.
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A diplomatic crisis has erupted between Paris and Libreville over the French police’s seizure of a Gabonese presidential Boeing 777 [...]
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Taiwan, which has been officially recognised by Burkina Faso since 1994, is getting nervous at the prospect that a candidate [...]
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After a cool period in 2014, relations between Bamako and Paris are showing signs of warming up again. The explanation?
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The steel group had no qualms about promising the Senegalese state all kinds of marvels in return for the right to exploit the Falémé iron ore deposits and we know what happened after that…
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