Even if Alassane Ouattara did warn Henri Konan Bedie on November 13 that he wanted to dissolve Prime Minister Jeannot Ahoussou’s government, the speed and the scope of the move which became public the next day took many by surprise.
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Lobbyists are not about to run out of work in Africa any time soon, if Alexandre Medvedowsky's recent efforts are [...]
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The Brits are increasingly out in force in Abidjan. West Africa Newsletter has the low-down on who's who among the players now doing business in Ivory Coast.
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Niger's president dug deep into his pockets to organise a forum of his partners in Paris. It was a pricey affair.
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A particularly zealous prosecutor attended Karim Wade’s recent third round of questioning by fraud investigators in Dakar.
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Commisimpex, whose businessman owner Moshen Hojeij has been chasing the government for payment of nearly €700 million, went into receivership last month.
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Like Niger which held a similar event in June, Libreville is keen to court British interests at the Gabon Investment Forum 2012. Eat your heart out, Paris.
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The Party for the Economic and Social Development of Mali [...]
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Cycling fan Blaise Compaore took some time off mediating peace [...]
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Rene Ndemezo’o Obiang and other Parti Democratique Gabonais (PDG) honchos [...]
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Frederic Bredin’s Paris-based PR agency Public Systeme Hopscotch handled relations [...]
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The management of the Incosol Hotel in the Spanish resort [...]
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EHC, a French group that offers operational military assistance and [...]
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L'Argus, the publisher of an eponymous weekly that has listed [...]
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The Democratic Republic of Congo government has contracted the Israeli [...]
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PFO Africa, a subsidiary of Pierre Fakhoury’s PFO, has formed [...]
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America’s Starwood Hotels & Resorts is in talks with Noel [...]
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Mimran, chaired by Jean-Claude Mimran has picked General Electric to [...]
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Alexandre Barro-Chambrier, 53, was kicked out as Gabon’s minister for [...]
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Souleymane Diarrassouba has been appointed managing director of Atlantique Bank [...]
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