Late French president Francois Mitterrand set the example by naming his son, Jean-Christophe, an adviser at the Elysee Palace. Now it's a rare case when the children of African presidents fail to take advantage of their father's position to load [.
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The steady procession of African heads of state in July to pay their respects to newly-elected French president François Hollande [...]
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Mali’s former president is profiting from the hospitality extended by Macky Sall to take it easy among his family, far from the crisis that drove him from office on March 22.
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Resigning on July 11, prime minister Gilbert Houngbo paid the price of his open-mindedness in an increasingly tense atmosphere in the run-up to October’s legislative ballot.
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President Macky Sall is expected to name the two longest-serving Senegalese politicians to high parliamentary office as a token of his gratitude for backing him in recent elections.
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The big winner in Congo-B's legislative elections on July 15, Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso, youngest son of the Congolese president, will use his victory to tighten his grip on the country's political levers.
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On the eve of a summit meeting of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC in its French initials) in Brazzaville on July 25, Philbert Andzembe stirred a bit of a fuss among the region's leaders.
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Former leader of the rebellion of Forces Nouvelles (FN), Issiaka [...]
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The imam of the Sankore mosque in Timbuktu was prevented [...]
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Senegal's culture minister, Youssou N’Dour, almost fell off his piano [...]
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The Guinean auditing concern AK founded by Amara Kaba has [...]
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Patrick Poirrier, the boss of France’s leading chocolate manufacturer, Cemoi, [...]
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The Guinean affiliate of the Nigerian banking group First Bank [...]
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The director of Port Autonome d’Abidjan (PAA), Hien Sie, is [...]
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The French hotel group Accor was due on July 24 [...]
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Hardly had a contract been signed on July 4 between [...]
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The Groupement Interprofessionnel de Centrafrique (GICA) complained to prime minister [...]
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Founder of the firm 3D Systeme in Abidjan, Armand Koffi [...]
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Founder and manager of the new information technologies and communications [...]
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