Defeating a 40-year-old establishment cannot be easy. In an effort to impose his vision and move forward with his "Emergence" project to develop Gabon, Ali Bongo is constantly having to do battle with his late father Omar Bongo's acolytes, as [.
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Austrian company bosses scouting for business opportunities in Ivory Coast on November 27-30 could have timed their visit better. The [...]
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President Alassane Ouattara is counting on the expertise of a network of IMF and BCEAO technocrat friends now advising him to help get Ivory Coast back on its feet.
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Karim Wade was due to be quizzed by detectives of the Dakar Gendarmerie's investigation service on December 20.
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Under the terms of a shadowy contract the government of Central African Republic is negotiating the acquisition of 70 tonnes of “freight” from the former Soviet republic.
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Alex Van Elk, the boss of Camair-Co since 2010, has been on the receiving end of increasingly bitter attacks about his alleged mismanagement of the airline.
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François Hollande's election as French president has not changed security relations between Gabon and France, as the makeup of President Ali Bongo's personal guard demonstrates.
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President Idriss Deby made a positive impression on French bosses in Paris recently but few bankers were in the room when he spoke about Chad's economic future.
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Some 42 Burkina Faso elite soldiers recruited by Guillaume Soro [...]
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Nicephore Soglo, the country’s ex-president, will not stand for re-election [...]
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Senegal's former president Abdoulaye Wade is convinced that he is [...]
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Senegal’s Gazette Media Communication (GME), publisher of the weekly La [...]
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France's Groupe La Poste is keenly awaiting the outcome of [...]
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Zakaria Déby, the deputy director of President Idriss Deby’s civil [...]
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The International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) [...]
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The crisis in Mali has taken its toll on the [...]
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Bank of Africa Benin has returned some CFA 200 million [...]
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Executives from the Asperbras group had a meeting with President [...]
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The former head of the Ivorian office of the West [...]
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Zong Biao, the managing director of the China Development Bank’s [...]
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