On one hand there is the macro-economic Gabon, whose numbers seem to tell that longed-for African success story: The economy is expected to grow 5.5% in 2013, slower than 7.2% in 2012 but a significant improvement on the annual 2% [.
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The West African Newsletter understands that the Paris-based financial consulting firm Iota has won a key contract from Ivory Coast's [...]
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Loic Le Floch-Prigent has decided to file suit against a person or persons unknown along with an independent civil action [...]
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Claude Guéant, the former French interior minister, has spent a lot of time in recent months wooing African leaders at [...]
Alassane Ouattara rolled out the red carpet for Martin Bouygues, his friend for more than two decades, during the French construction group leader's recent visit to Abidjan.
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The African Development Bank’s imminent comeback to Abidjan has revived old rows including one with founding President Felix Houphouet Boigny's head of protocol, West Africa Newsletter can reveal.
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President Mahamadou Issoufou is doing his utmost to keep in check an army that has already overthrown four of the country's leaders since independence.
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Cameroon’s freemasons have been taking special care of Francois Bozize in the past couple of months but now Central African Republic’s ousted leader is headed for Benin.
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Capitalising on the good publicity of his role in Operation Serval, Denis Sassou Nguesso now has more leeway to wangle the constitutional change that would enable him to run for office again.
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Agents of the Republic of Congo’s National Security Council, headed [...]
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Commander Gaoussou Kone alias "Jah Gao" is refusing to leave [...]
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In private Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou is increasingly irritated over [...]
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President Alpha Conde will inaugurate Conakry's new five-star Palm Camayenne [...]
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A shipment of several dozen armoured vehicles for use by [...]
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According to our sources, Dubai Ports Senegal, the Senegalese subsidiary [...]
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The Banque Internationale pour l'Afrique Occidentale en Cote d'Ivoire (BIAO-CI), [...]
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The Franco-Senegalese-Palestinian businessman Latfallah Layousse, was awarded the Legion d’Honneur [...]
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The brewery Les Brasseries Ivoiriennes the brewery founded by the [...]
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The government of Mali told its embassy in the US [...]
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Ivorian businessman Mohamed Cheick Karamoko, CEO of communications equipment manufacturer [...]
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Jose Veiga was appointed the managing director of Asperbras Congo [...]
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