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

France/Niger Macron's discreet dinner with Bazoum

Liberia/USA Weah seeks face-to-face with Harris

France/DRC Hollande on billionaire-sponsored PR trip to see Mukwege

Togo DSK home from home in Lomé

Ivory Coast Cesareo, Houphouët-Boigny-era master builder, passes away

Algeria, France
After Macron visit, French ministers to get down to brass tacks in Algiers

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and her top ministers will travel to Algiers before the end of October for a high-level intergovernmental meeting. The aim is to turn the announcements made by Emmanuel Macron last month in Algiers into reality.

Africa
Paris dissolves its Sahel task force

Created in the wake of the Pau Summit in January 2020, France's Sahel task force will be dissolved in its current form to be fully integrated into the foreign ministry's Africa directorate.

Morocco
The four candidates in the running to be French ambassador in Rabat

Emmanuel Macron must appoint in the coming days the future French ambassador to Morocco, against the backdrop of a major bilateral crisis. Four candidates with very different profiles are currently in the running.

France
Ambassador Lechevallier top pick to head foreign ministry's globalisation unit

Aurélien Lechevallier, currently the France ambassador to South Africa, is the top pick to take over the French foreign ministry's globalisation unit. He would succeed Michel Miraillet, in office since 2020.

Ivory Coast
Ouattara flying off for diplomatic missions in the Vatican and UN

Ivorian head of state Alassane Ouattara is due to fly to the Vatican on 11 September to meet the pope, and following that he'll head to New York to attend the UN General Assembly.

Morocco
Former diplomatic adviser to the Elysée joins French embassy in Rabat

French diplomat Arnaud Pescheux has taken up a new position as minister-counsellor in Rabat, just as the French ambassador to Morroco Hélène Le Gal is about to leave. Her position has yet to be filled

Africa, Japan
Key attendees pull out of TICAD

The Japanese PM will not travel to Tunis for TICAD due to Covid. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has cancelled his visit and his Senegalese counterpart, Macky Sall, is considering doing the same, as are other leaders.

Central African Republic, France
Hindered by Russian influence, France closes its last army base in Bangui

After pulling French troops out of Mali, President Emmanuel Macron is expected to announce the closure ofa logistics base at Bangui airport next week. The departure of the last 130 French troops is scheduled for the end of the year.

Senegal
Amadou Ly sets up own party with eyes on 2024 presidential election

Having run unsuccessfully in the municipal elections in January, the businessman Amadou Ly is about to launch his own political party. But he has not ruled out allying himself with other figures on the Senegalese political scene in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election.