Fabrice Sawegnon

Ivory Coast
Events giant GL Events sets ups in Abidjan

Alassane Ouattara has chosen the French multinational GL Events to operate the giant exhibition centre near Abidjan airport. The company will link up with the Ivorian conglomerate PFO Africa.

Ivory Coast
Government in stand-off with private digital TV channels

To protest the fact that they do not receive any state aid, three TV stations - NCI, Life TV and 7info - are refusing to pay the estimated 300m CFA francs they owe in annual broadcasting rights and other fees.

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

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

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

Ivory Coast
Regime business barons make reality TV their latest battleground

Loïc Folloroux and Fabrice Sawegnon, both linked to the presidential couple, are competitors in television as well as in the corridors of power, and their stations have got caught up in their tug-of-war.

Guinea
Arnauld Houndété ignores politics and makes beeline for gold

His nephew is an advisor to President Alassane Ouattara in Ivory Coast and his brother is part of the opposition to Patrice Talon in Benin, but Arnauld Houndété is interested in prospecting for gold in Guinea.

Ivory Coast
Amadou Gon Coulibaly gets his presidential campaign up and running

Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who is bidding to succeed Alassane Ouattara, has set up a core campaign team and has made peace with those who are sceptical about his presidential credentials.

Ivory Coast
Yassine Mohamed racks up the presidential contracts

The communications agency Sixième sens - co-founded by Barry Alexandre [...]

Ivory Coast
M6 severs links with Fabrice Sawegnon

As of this autumn, the French audiovisual company M6 will [...]

Ivory Coast
TF1 abandons its partnership with Voodoo

Martin Bouygues's French television company TF1 has broken off its [...]

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
DTTV, the new battlefield for national and foreign operators

The opening up of the Ivorian audiovisual landscape has triggered a war without mercy between operators keen to tap into lucrative advertising revenues. The French businessmen Martin Bouygues, Vincent Bollore and Xavier Niel, along with the Ivorian tycoon Jean-Philippe Kabore, [.

Ivory Coast
Augustin Akou from 2A Consulting sticks new needle into Voodoo

The PR firm 2A Consulting run by businessman Augustin Akou [...]

Ivory Coast
Janine Diagou tests waters in media venture

Managing director of the banking and insurance group NSIA founded [...]

Ivory Coast
Kaydan Real Estate lands contract to extend the American University

The real estate investment fund Kaydan Real Estate will see [...]

Ivory Coast
Cedric Feron leaves Prosuma

Retail giant Prosuma’s security chief Cedric Feron resigned his post [...]

Ivory Coast
Grand TV jackpot for Alassane Ouattara’s pals

Via the broadcasting authority Haute Autorite de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HACA) and following a tender call, the Ivorian state has [...]

Ivory Coast, Mali
Karim Keita unwinds at Sawegnon’s nightclub

Spending the weekend of October 8 and 9 in Abidjan, [...]

Ivory Coast
Sagem teams up with Sawegnon

Head of the Voodoo company and communications advisor to Alassane [...]

France, Ivory Coast
Rich pickings in the audiovisual sector

On September 23, magazine publisher Jeune Afrique, which already has advertising contracts with the office of the president in Ivory [...]