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Morocco
Paris seeks to bolster investment in Western Sahara

Without radically shifting its political stance on Western Sahara, France's foreign ministry is nevertheless now encouraging French companies to invest in the disputed territory.

Subscribers only Business, Diplomacy 01.04.2024

Morocco's FM Nasser Bourita (right) greets his French counterpart Stéphane Séjourné in Rabat, 26 February 2024.

Angola
French space leaders due to touch down in Luanda

Medef International is arranging for representatives of France's space industry to attend the African Union's NewSpace Africa conference in the Angolan capital from 2 to 5 April.

Subscribers only Business 29.03.2024

Cameroon
Michel Thierry Atangana takes legal battle to European Union

Atangana, who was held prisoner in Cameroon for 17 years, wants the French legislation inspired by his case to be transposed into EU law. It provides protection for citizens who are arbitrarily imprisoned while they are abroad.

Subscribers only Politics, Business 27.03.2024

Michel Thierry Atangana arrives at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on 28 February 2014.

DRC
Félix Tshisekedi to make official visit to France

The Congolese president has accepted Emmanuel Macron's invitation to Paris next month.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 27.03.2024

Ivory Coast
Ouattara dines at Élysée Palace

The Ivorian president is to meet with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris this evening, 22 March. The two men are expected to discuss the situation in West Africa and France's presence in the region.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 22.03.2024

Emmanuel Macron and Alassane Ouattara, on 21 November 2023, at the Élysée Palace.

Palace Intrigues
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Alassane Ouattara, Joseph Boakai, Mohamed Bazoum

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

GabonOligui Nguema due in Abidjan

LiberiaOuattara lays on jet for Boakai

NigerJunta divided over Bazoum's release

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy 21.03.2024

Spotlight | Libya
All eyes on Takala before fresh round of talks on formation of new government

Whether a new unified executive in Libya, as supported by France, Morocco and Egypt, comes into being largely depends on the position taken by Mohamed Takala, the head of the country's advisory High Council of State.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 18.03.2024

Presidential council leader, Mohamed al-Menfi, Tobruk House of Representatives speaker, Aguila Salah Issa, Chairman of the High Council of State, Mohamed Takala.

Palace Intrigues
Félix Tshisekedi, Faure Gnassingbé, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema

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

DRCJean-Claude Kabongo tags along on Tshisekedi's Doha trip

TogoGnassingbé's key role in lifting Niger and Mali sanctions

GabonAPF head Bruno Fuchs to meet Oligui Nguema

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy 14.03.2024

Morocco
French and Moroccan MPs to convene in Paris in April

Several French and Moroccan MPs will meet in April for a conference organised by the alumni of public administration school ENA to discuss diplomacy between Paris and Rabat.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 14.03.2024

Spotlight | Madagascar
National Assembly speaker pays for past stand against Rajoelina

In the run-up to the legislative elections, President Andry Rajoelina has sacked several civil servants close to Christine Razanamahasoa, who opposed him during last year's presidential campaign.

Subscribers only Politics 12.03.2024

Yaël Braun-Pivet welcomes Christine Razanamahasoa at the French National Assembly on 7 March 2024.

Senegal
Ouattara's discreet election advice to Sall

The outgoing Senegalese leader has been in regular contact with his Ivorian counterpart since postponing the presidential election, Ouattara has urged him to step down when his term as president officially comes to an end.

Subscribers only Politics 08.03.2024

Senegalese president Macky Sall and his Ivorian counterpart Alassane Ouattara in Abidjan on 14 June 2022.

Spotlight | Burkina Faso
Brazilian plane order complicates negotiations to release French intelligence agents

The Burkinabe junta suspects Washington and Paris of blocking the delivery of an Embraer Super Tucano attack plane, and this is overshadowing negotiations for the release of four DGSE agents detained in Ouagadougou.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy 07.03.2024

Ibrahim Traoré, President of Burkina Faso's transitional government.

Spotlight | Morocco
$1.6bn Franco-Spanish battle to supply Moroccan trains

French giant Alstom is in pole position for the mega-deal to supply 168 new trains to Morocco's Office National des Chemins de Fer (ONCF), but faces stiff competition from Spain's CAF and Talgo.

Subscribers only Infrastructure 06.03.2024

A high speed train produced by Alstom departs La Rochelle's harbour for Tangier, on 26 June 2015.

Nigeria
France-Nigeria Business Council reorganises following chairman's death

Banker Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede will temporarily lead the council pending the election of a new chairman in May. He was close to its former head Herbert Wigwe, who died earlier this month.

Subscribers only Business 29.02.2024

Morocco
French interior minister Darmanin set for talks in Rabat

Seconded imams and the granting of visas are to be among the topics discussed at meetings between Gérald Darmanin and the Moroccan authorities during his upcoming trip.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 29.02.2024

French interior minister Gérald Darmanin in Paris on 9 October 2023.

Spotlight | Madagascar
France takes step towards returning royal relics to Madagascar

France has finally taken a step towards returning three human skulls, including one believed to be of a king beheaded by French colonists in the 19th century, to Madagascar. Antananarivo requested their return twenty years ago.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 27.02.2024

French President Emmanuel Macron (right) and French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati.

Morocco
French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné's schedule for Rabat visit

The French minister is expected in the Moroccan capital on 25 February. The trip looks set to pave the way for a series of meetings between the two countries' leaders - with an economic focus for now.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 23.02.2024

The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stéphane Séjourné.

Morocco
French foreign minister Séjourné expected in Rabat this week

The newly appointed foreign minister is set to meet his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita on 25 February. After months of frosty relations between the two countries, it's a highly symbolic visit and one that could pave the way for Emmanuel Macron's trip to the kingdom.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 21.02.2024

French foreign minister Stéphane Séjourné in New York on 23 January 2024.

Africa
AFD gears up for October's Francophonie gathering

The French Development Agency has just appointed Safia Ibrahim-Otokoré, its director in the DR Congo, to prepare for the 19th Francophonie Summit this October.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 19.02.2024

Ivory Coast
Macron's brand-new Africa envoy due to meet Ouattara

Emmanuel Macron's new 'personal envoy' for Africa, former minister Jean-Marie Bockel, will be in Abidjan on 20-21 February to discuss the ongoing reorganisation of France's military presence on the continent.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 16.02.2024

Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Emmanuel Macron

Morocco
Paris seeks to bolster investment in Western Sahara

Angola
French space leaders due to touch down in Luanda

Cameroon
Michel Thierry Atangana takes legal battle to European Union

DRC
Félix Tshisekedi to make official visit to France

Ivory Coast
Ouattara dines at Élysée Palace