Alassane Ouattara

Ivory Coast, Tunisia
Alassane Ouattara slated to attend Francophonie summit in Djerba

The Ivorian president has just confirmed his attendance at the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie's summit to Tunisian authorities.

Palace Intrigues
Alassane Ouattara, Ibrahim Traoré, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, Hamza Abdi Barre, François Perrodo

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Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara takes a break in Mougins

Burkina Faso Captain Traoré opens dialogue with neighbours

Central African Republic GainJet helps Touadéra fly

Djibouti First visit of Somali PM Hamza Abdi Barre

United Kingdom Perenco boss Perrodo's London rave party

Ivory Coast
Ouattara's €153m plan to boost Ivorian army

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has since mid-October been mulling a plan estimated at nearly 100bn CFA francs (€153m) to accelerate the acquisition of military equipment to strengthen the Ivorian army.

Ivory Coast, Mali
Confidential draft agreement on the 49 Ivorian soldiers rejected by Abidjan

The Malian junta sent a draft agreement to the Ivorian presidency at the end of October, which would have led to the release of 46 of the 49 Ivorian soldiers arrested in Bamako in July.

Palace Intrigues
João Lourenço, Macky Sall, Jacques Ychalingonza Nduru, Laurent Gbagbo, Didier Drogba

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Angola/Senegal Lourenço cuts short Dakar trip after Sall leaves

DRC Military intelligence chief finds wire bug

Ivory Coast Gbagbo's bank account startlingly empty

Ivory Coast Super luxury La Résidence Hotel welcomes VIPs

The New Guard
Ivory Coast, Guinea, Sudan, Zimbabwe

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Ivory Coast Cédric Diarra, the PM's special adviser

Guinea Baba Hady Thiam, darling of the multinationals

Sudan Fintech and Abdigani Diriye's free banking services app

Zimbabwe Ndlovu, head of African Risk Capacity

Ivory Coast
KPMG's Jean-Luc Ruelle to probe Petroci's missing butane

Ivory Coast's leading importer and distributor of cooking gas somehow lost track of several thousand tonnes of its stock earlier this year. One of the word's top auditing firms is now on the case.

Palace Intrigues
Denis Sassou Nguesso, Nana Akufo-Addo, Karanja Kibicho, Félix Houphouët-Boigny

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Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso wants Lotfi Bel Hadj's head

Ghana/France Nana Akufo-Addo's packed Paris stay

Kenya Securocrat Kibicho moves into luxury hotels

Ivory Coast Magnate Beydoun buys up Houphouët-Boigny's real estate assets

Guinea, West Africa
ECOWAS split over how to deal with Doumbouya junta

The Economic Community of West African States' decision to impose sanctions on Guinea's junta was the result of a fragile consensus and is far from being unanimously backed by its member countries.

Palace Intrigues
Emmanuel Macron, Nana Akufo-Addo, Laurent Gbagbo, Sylvie Baïpo-Temon

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France/Egypt Will Macron cut the ribbon of the Suez Canal Museum?

Ghana/France Ghanaian President Akufo-Addo heading to the Sorbonne

Ivory Coast Gbagbo's bank accounts unblocked

France/CAR Baïpo-Temon acts as stand-in CAR consul in France

Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast gives up on second Abidjan metro line

Ivory Coast has given up on building a second metro line for its economic capital Abidjan and has instead plumped for a bus rapid transit (BRT) system.

France, Ivory Coast
French interior minister Gérald Darmanin due to visit Abidjan

French Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin is due to conduct his first official visit to Ivory Coast on 25 September. He'll meet his Ivorian counterpart, Vagondo Diomandé, in Abidjan and later on 26 September he's expected to meet President Alassane Ouattara