Guinea's President Alpha Conde seems to be taking his cue from his predecessors - whom he once fought - to exercise his mandate without being troubled by bothersome legislative elections and a legitimate parliament. Despite recent advances such as the [.
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Hissene Habre made off with CFA 16 billion - some €24.4 million - when he fled Njamena in 1990 after [...]
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Appointed head of the government in the wake of the pact sealed with Henri Konan Bedie during the 2011 presidential race, Prime Minister Jeannot Ahoussou has not impressed Ouattara.
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Chased out of its fiefdom by AQIM and MUJAO, the MNLA Tuareg rebel movement is itching to take back its positions in northern Mali.
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Vincent Bollore's rail projects in West Africa were the main topic of conversation when the French businessman met Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore in France earlier this month.
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Niger’s indebted government is trying to smooth things over with the International Monetary Fund in the wake of the news that it secretly borrowed €72.3 million from the Republic of Congo.
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Jean-Jacques Bouya's powerful major public works department is showing rather too much initiative, according to the ministers responsible for the Republic of Congo's new Special Economic Zone.
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Three years after the presidential elections that brought Ali Bongo to power, opposition leader Andre Mba Obame is galvanising support by default.
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Cameroon's President Paul Biya is expected to officiate at the [...]
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Thomas Boni Yayi spent a few days in Abuja earlier [...]
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For several weeks Malian officers in Ouagadougou have been trying [...]
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During a brief visit to Paris on September 16-18, Sidya [...]
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Coris Bank International, founded and headed by Burkina Faso businessman [...]
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Dominique Lafont, the head of Bollore Africa Logistics (BAL), was [...]
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Relations between mining companies operating in Ivory Coast and the mining ministry headed by Adama Toungara took a turn for the worse earlier this month when the department of mines and geology (DGMD), headed by Abdramane Diabate, decided to limit to thre
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Gabon's ambassador to Washington, Michael Moussa Adamo, has hired the [...]
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The business bank Africa Capital, headed by Idelphonse Affogbolo, was [...]
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As might be expected, Mali's nine-month old political-military crisis has [...]
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Earlier this month President Alassane Ouattara decided to axe tax [...]
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The head of TV+, the TV channel owned by opposition [...]
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The CEO of Societe Textile de Cote d’Ivoire (Sotexi), Vassiriki [...]
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