Carla Bruni-Sarkozy

Palace Intrigues
Alassane Ouattara, Nicolas Sarkozy, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Cyril Ramaphosa

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

Ivory CoastOuattara boosts Sarkozy's morale

GabonOligui Nguema, admirer of General de Gaulle

South Africa / RwandaRamaphosa's lexical blunder upsets Kagame

Palace Intrigues
Alassane Ouattara, Nicolas Sarkozy, Mohammed VI, William Ruto

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

Ivory CoastSarkozy pays weekend visit to Ouattara

MoroccoMohammed VI keeps ambassadors on tenterhooks

KenyaFirst lady turns deaf ear to second lady's appeals

Palace Intrigues
Mamadi Doumbouya, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Alassane Ouattara, Nicolas Sarkozy

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

GuineaMamadi Doumbouya's new watch

CongoSassou's daughter's big Parisian wedding

Ivory CoastAlassane Ouattara hosts Nicolas Sarkozy in Mougins

Palace Intrigues
Dominique Ouattara, Mamadi Doumbouya, Valérie Pécresse, Abdou Diouf, Abdoulaye Wade

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

Ivory CoastVIPs galore for first lady Dominique Ouattara's foundation gala

GuineaDoumbouya's ministers told to stay home

MoroccoValérie Pécresse to visit Rabat

SenegalHamidou Sall, architect of Diouf-Wade joint statement

Ivory Coast
Ex-French president Sarkozy to attend Dominique Ouattara's gala in Abidjan

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will be in Abidjan in early March. He plans to take part in a gala organised there by Children of Africa, the foundation headed by Ivorian First Lady Dominique Ouattara.

Ivory Coast
VIPs lucky to escape terrorist attack

Many VIPs were in Ivory Coast when the terrorist attack took place in Grand-Bassam on March 13, causing the deaths [...]

France, Ivory Coast
Ouattara fits in with Carla

Alassane Ouattara's first state visit to France has been pushed back a month from its scheduled December 18-21 slot to [...]

Ivory Coast
AFD, new shareholder of Air Ivoire

The Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) is to become one [...]

Ethiopia
Nicolas Sarkozy’s "touch and go"

The French President is to go on a lightning visit to Addis Ababa at the end of January. He may extend his trip to neighbouring countries, in order to discuss the G20

France, Kenya
Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni on vacation in Kilifi

The French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni [...]

Spotlight | Africa, France
French diplomats all a-jitter

Their morale in their moccasins, French diplomats are anxiously awaiting the government's mid-November reshuffle to find out who will be in charge of France's foreign policy. As far as African policy-making is concerned, Bernard Kouchner's successor, whoever he or she [.

France, Morocco
Antoine Sfeir

The publisher of Cahiers de l’Orient, a French quarterly focusing [...]

South Africa
The programme of Sarkozy’s visit

After a stopover in N’Djamena this afternoon to congratulate President [...]