Alassane Ouattara

Palace Intrigues
Alassane Ouattara, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Félix Tshisekedi, Mahamat Idriss Déby

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

Ivory Coast Ouattara and Sassou neatly avoid the Soro issue

DRC Tshisekedi calls up Israeli counterpart for support

Cameroon Did the Chadian ambassador stay or go?

Ivory Coast
Achi delegates management of AFCON budget

The $91m funds to cover delegation expenses for the next Africa Cup of Nations will be controlled by both the Ivorian football federation and the Confederation of African Football, but not the Ivory Coast's AFCON organising committee itself.

West Africa
Paris presents military restructuring plan to African presidencies

The Elysée and the defence ministry have been holding discreet consultations with a handful of African "partners" to present the reorganisation of France's military presence on the continent.

Ivory Coast, Mali
Goïta calls on Ouattara to obtain financial support from BCEAO

Bamako is under economic pressure and is asking Abidjan for help in lifting certain measures imposed by the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO).

Ivory Coast
Brussels provides €400,000 to finance Ivorian local elections

With just months to go before municipal and regional elections set for September, the European Union has injected €400,000 into the Ivorian electoral process via the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Palace Intrigues
Macky Sall, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, Emmanuel Macron

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

SenegalSocial crisis dents Macky Sall's international plans

CARTouadéra expected in Paris for financial summit

FranceSpeculation abounds over Macron's 'Mr. Africa'

Ivory Coast
PM Achi puts plan for difficult districts' urban renewal on back burner

Ivorian prime minister Patrick Achi has postponed the plan to clean up Abidjan's 'challenging' neighbourhoods. Several of the suggestions required expropriation, which was deemed complicated, and too delicate to undertake shortly before the local elections.

Palace Intrigues
Alassane Ouattara, Patrice Talon and Faustin-Archange Touadera

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Ivory Coast IMF wraps up Ouattara's 2023 budget

Benin Ex-foreign minister Agbenonci's costly ambitions

CAR Opposition leader Dologuele's discreet campaign

Ivory Coast
Ouattara moves to end Eranove's drinking water monopoly

On the Ivorian president's orders, Prime Minister Patrick Achi is taking steps to open up the drinking water market, currently dominated by the French company's subsidiary SODECI.

Palace Intrigues
Alassane Ouattara and Macky Sall, Anatole Collinet Makosso, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan

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

Senegal Ouattara and Sall's unlikely double get-together

Congo PM Makosso joins the Academy of Overseas Sciences

Sudan al-Burhan's discreet lobbying at Arab League summit

Ivory Coast
Alassane Ouattara to chair council of ministers on 24 May

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara will chair an extraordinary council of ministers in Abidjan on 24 May.

Africa
Denis Sassou Nguesso, Alassane Ouattara, Félix Tshisekedi and Azali Assoumani

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