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Palace Intrigues
Félix Tshisekedi, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Laurent Gbagbo, Tidjane Thiam

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

DRCFrom NYC to Brussels, Tshisekedi's full-on diplomatic agenda

CongoSassou's two funerals and a wedding

Ivory CoastTensions flare between Gbagbo and Thiam

Libya
EU still waiting on its invitation for election observation

The European Union is considering sending an election observation team for the elections scheduled for 24 December, yet it still needs a request from the government. The US agencies are already working on the issue.

Ivory Coast
Independence of judiciary in question

Rulings targeting magistrates and the failure to prosecute other cases involving government allies have raised doubts over the judiciary's ability to resist political pressure.

Africa, United States
Christopher Fomunyoh addresses Congress

Christopher Fomunyoh, the West Africa director of the National Democratic [...]

Uganda
Will Mbabazi stay in presidential race?

Inaugurated presidential candidate for The Democratic Alliance opposition coalition on [...]

Libya
Two former NDI members in talks with Tarhouni

Franck Talbot and Carlo Binda, who worked in Libya between [...]

Cameroon
NDI executive’s personal anti-Boko Haram mission

During a two-week vacation in Cameroon, his country of origin, [...]

Libya
Washington’s Danish experts

The Danish consulting concern JMW Consulting that specializes in Libya [...]

Spotlight | Africa, United States
Africans go off Obama

U.S. President Barack Obama is paying the price for the weakness of his Africa policy. In four years, Obama has only visited sub-Saharan Africa once, making a trip to Ghana in 2009. His apparent lack of interest in the continent [.

Spotlight | Libya
Washington cherry-picks new government

To choose his new "executive bureau," Abdel Rahim El Keeb held lengthy consultations with the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, Susan Rice -a leading light of the National Security Council under Bill Clinton -on Nov.

Cameroon
Biya gives vote veneer of credibility

While there is no doubt that the October presidential elections will deliver Paul Biya back into office for another term, the outgoing president is determined to give the proceedings a democratic gloss.

Tunisia
Alex Pascal

Alex Pascal has been entrusted the Tunisian brief at the [...]

Canada, Djibouti
Thomas Cormier

The Canadian Thomas Cormier is to head a team of consultants from the small American company Democracy International which will [...]

Morocco
Talal Belrhiti

Talal Belrhiti has joined the Moffett Group, a lobbying concern [...]

Algeria
Said Sadi's International Contacts

The long-standing opponent to Algeria's government, Said Sadi, is trying to fill the political vacuum in Algeria created by president [...]

Spotlight | Morocco
The Political Ties of American NGOs

Several American non-governmental organizations are working to achieve economic and social headway in Morocco. And the activities of some are also clearly "political." Jason Yossef Ben-Meir, president of the High Atlas Foundation (HAF), an organization founded by Peace Corps volunteers [.