Congo
Legal summons almost disrupts Denis Sassou Nguesso's trip to Paris

Palace Intrigues
Denis Sassou Nguesso, Kais Saied, Mamady Doumbouya, François Beya

Intrigues big and small... Every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

Congo Macron's embarrassing handshake at presidential palace

Tunisia Saied requests $500m in aid from Al Thani

Guinea French-Guinean duo brings Pogba and Ronaldinho to Conakry and Abidjan

Central African Republic François Beya fails to show in Bangui

France, Gabon
Dominique Blanc keeps ill-gotten gains inquiry alive

Officially, the investigation into the Bongo family's property assets in France (the so-called ‘ill-gotten gains' inquiry) was closed by Judge [...]

Congo
Sassou to the rescue of his advisor Obili

Taken by surprise by the arrest of Wilfrid Magloire Obili, a legal advisor to Denis Sassou Nguesso, on 14 March [...]

Spotlight | Africa, France
Macron rejuvenates French diplomacy in Africa

Elected at the age of 39, Emmanuel Macron has entrusted his Africa policy to a ‘task force' from his own generation. Consisting of ENA graduates, diplomats and parliamentarians, this team is tasked with reinvigorating France's relations with Africa.

Central African Republic
Paris pushes back against the Russians

Having underestimated Moscow's offensive, France seeks to regain the initiative in the country.

Congo
Roland-Levy Nitou stirs up the ill-gotten gains affair

49-year-old Roland-Levy Nitou, the leader of the collective Les Indignes du 242, a political association formed by the Congolese diaspora [...]

Congo, France
Ill-Gotten Gains Affair: Sassou Nguesso's relatives keep French judges at bay

Four relatives of Congolese head of state Denis Sassou-Nguesso, who were formally put under investigation in July 2017 in the [...]

Congo
Sassou Nguesso purges the judiciary

At a meeting of the Conseil superieur de la magistrature [...]

Congo
American courts block a subpoena issued against Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso

Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso aka "Kiki", who is tipped to become chairman of the Société nationale des pétroles du Congo [...]

Congo
Wilfrid Nguesso under the gun in ill-gotten gains affair

Under formal investigation in the so named Ill-Gotten Gains case in France, like other members of Denis Sassou-Nguesso’s family, 52-year-old [...]

Congo, France
"Ill-gotten gains" affair: the judges target the Villa Suzette

Following the search carried out in 2013 at the apartment of his daughter, Julienne "Joujou" Johnson, in the smart western [...]