Patrick Achi

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

DRC Tshisekedi's mysteriously large salary

Congo Sassou keeps his memoirs to himself a while longer

France/Togo General Germanos' death leaves hole in team

Ivory Coast Cocody Bay's foul smells get under Ouattara's nose

France, Ivory Coast
Veolia loses water deal to local Ivorian firm Sodeci

Despite support from the French finance minister, waste and water management giant Veolia has lost the contract to run the Adzopé drinking water treatment plant on La Mé river in Ivory Coast. Local firm Sodeci, whose boss has friends in high places, has bagged the deal.

Ivory Coast
Trouble over CAF premises in Abidjan

PM Patrick Achi has ordered his sports minister to remove his staff from the offices donated by Ivory Coast to the Confederation of African Football for the preparations for the Africa Cup of Nations.

Ivory Coast
Florence Atse Achi in the running for Adzopé mayor?

Florence Atse Achi, wife of Ivory Coast PM Patrick Achi, is expected to stand for the RHDP (the presidential party) to be mayor of the town of Adzopé, the Achi stronghold.

Ivory Coast
Bruno Le Maire's Ivorian agenda

France's economy minister Bruno Le Maire will travel to Abidjan on 18 December to attend the launch of the third phase of upgrade works at Félix Houphouët-Boigny international airport.

Ivory Coast
Ahmed Cissé sole candidate to succeed Jean-Marie Ackah as employers' association head

The coming election to succeed Jean-Marie Ackah as president of the Ivory Coast employers' association CGECI is expected to be a mere formality, as the electoral committee has received only the application of Ahmed Cissé.

Ivory Coast
Patrick Achi plots to acquire Bouygues stake in Abidjan toll bridge

Two of the main shareholders in Socoprim, which runs the Henri-Konan-Bédié toll bridge in Abidjan, have reservations about a state pension fund acquiring Bouygues's shares in the venture.

Ivory Coast
Football boss Motsepe heads to Abidjan to sign controversial CAN 2024 deal

Patrice Motsepe, the South African president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), is due to visit Abidjan on 11 November to finalise a new agreement for the African Cup of Nations to be held in Ivory Coast in January 2024.

Ivory Coast
Bitter battle for presidency of Ivorian employers' union

The two candidates campaigning to take over from Jean-Marie Ackah at the head of the CGECI, Ivory Coast's main employers' union, are both members of the powerful GLCI Masonic Lodge.

The New Guard
Ivory Coast, Guinea, Sudan, Zimbabwe

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence reveals the next generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

Ivory Coast Cédric Diarra, the PM's special adviser

Guinea Baba Hady Thiam, darling of the multinationals

Sudan Fintech and Abdigani Diriye's free banking services app

Zimbabwe Ndlovu, head of African Risk Capacity

Ivory Coast
Achi hopes to cash in on Bouygues shares in HKB toll bridge operator

The Ivorian prime minister would like to get nearly 7 billion CFA francs (€10.6m) for the shares the state bought in Socoprim, operator of Henri-Konan-Bédié toll bridge, from Bouygues in 2021.

China, Ivory Coast
China's CHEC to build Akwaba motorway interchange in Abidjan

China Harbour Engineering Co, which has been present in Ivory Coast since 2015, has just pocketed a new contract estimated at 26bn CFA francs (€39m) in Abidjan.

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.

Ivory Coast
Ouattara makes key new appointments at his embassy in Paris

Following his appointment of a new consul general at the French embassy in Paris in February, Alassane Ouattara has promoted one of his generals as head of the military mission there.