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Palace Intrigues
Denis Sassou Nguesso, Alassane Ouattara, Nasser Bourita

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

CongoSassou to holiday in Turkey

Ivory CoastAlassane Ouattara's three palaces in Abdijan.

Moroco/FranceRabat angry over twinning of Ivry-sur-Seine with district of Mijek

Morocco, Senegal
Mohammed VI's new Dakar envoy Hassan Naciri hopes to get major projects back on track

The Moroccan ambassador in Dakar is expected to resurrect several outstanding projects, which have been put on hold despite the warm relations between the two countries. He will also have to strengthen the historical link between the kingdom and the powerful Tidjane brotherhood.

Morocco
Rabat's African diplomacy left rudderless

The heads of African Union and African affairs directorates in Morocco's foreign ministry have been appointed as ambassadors. The ministry is currently looking to recruit their successors.

Morocco
Gendarmes get help from Delair drones to fight illegal immigration

Delair, with the backing of the French foreign ministry, has delivered 14 surveillance drones to the Moroccan gendarmerie to help it combat irregular immigration. The issue has caused serious diplomatic tensions between Rabat and its European partners.

Guinea, Morocco
Worried Rabat keeps close eye on Managem and other Moroccan interests in post-putsch Conakry

The fall of Alpha Condé, one of Mohammed VI's most reliable allies in West Africa, has caught Morocco off guard and fuelled concerns about its many assets and interests in Guinea.

Morocco
Rabat talks tough on Berlin while quietly mending diplomatic fences behind the scenes

Publicly, Morocco is maintaining an aggressive diplomatic stance towards Germany by refusing to accredit its new representative in Rabat. But privately, it is busy resurrecting cooperation programmes and striving to avoid a European backlash.

Morocco, Spain
Navantia to start building Avante patrol vessel despite Moroccan-Spanish tensions

The mega-contract awarded to the Spanish shipbuilder by the Moroccan navy has survived the tensions arising from the hospitalisation of the Polisario leader Brahim Ghali in Spain back in April.