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Spotlight | Central Africa, West Africa
Elections: Sub-Saharan winter drags on

While the Arab Spring may have raised the hopes of young people in Sub-Saharan Africa, on the whole rulers have managed to avoid regime changes and often made no attempt at transparency during the recent elections across the region. With [...]

Published on 01/03/2012 at 23:01 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Spotlight | Togo
Faure coached by his peers in outfoxing the opposition

Forced to reopen dialogue with his opponents, the Togolese president is being discretely urged by the majority of his sub-regional counterparts not to loosen his grip on power one iota. An investigation.Referendum - Having succeeded his father Gnassingbe Eyadema in [.

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Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
The murky ‘putsch' against Obiang bolsters relations with Biya

The alleged coup attempt against the president of Equatorial Guinea has strained relations with N'Djamena, while strengthening ties with Yaounde.

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Congo
Mangbama's head on a plate

After expelling tens of thousands of neighbouring DRC's nationals, Denis Sassou Nguesso made a peace offering to Joseph Kabila by eliminating wanted ex-rebel leader Udjani Mangbama.

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Congo, Senegal
Wade confides in Sassou

Senegal's ex-president Abdoulaye Wade turned to Denis Sassou Nguesso at the "Build Africa" forum for support in his dispute with Macky Sall.

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Senegal
Macky’s men move in

After appointing banker Abdoule Mbaye as prime minister on April 3, Macky Sall has been picking and choosing his cabinet.

Subscribers only Politics 11.04.2012

Spotlight | Gabon
Ali Bongo's unquenchable thirst for power

Omar Bongo reigned over Gabon for 42 years. It has taken his son Ali Bongo just three years to put his own, even more hegemonous, stamp on the country. Bongo fils has kept his large family well at arm's length, [.

Subscribers only Politics 14.03.2012

Senegal
Washington and Paris want Wade out

France and the United States are more or less on the same wavelength as people in Senegal who think that trouble is ahead if Wade insists on holding on to power.

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Mali
Tuareg MNLA dominates elections

Aware they could inherit an insurrection if they win the presidential election in April, a couple of key contenders are pushing for Bamako to negotiate with the MNLA Tuareg separatists.

Subscribers only Politics 15.02.2012

Spotlight | Senegal
Wade set on third term

Senegal's Constitutional Council may yet declare he cannot run again, and the Parti Democratique Senegalais won't officially swear him in as its candidate until December 23, but Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade is already pounding the campaign trail in earnest ahead [.

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Gabon
Bongo’s party headed for landslide

Certain of victory in the upcoming parliamentary elections, the ruling PDG will profit politically even further from the recent death of Pierre Mamboundou.

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Cameroon
Biya throws bone to opposition

After his runaway victory in Cameroon’s presidential elections last month, Paul Biya could power share by appointing a northerner as prime minister.

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Gabon
Bongo faces polls unchallenged

The recent death of Pierre Mamboundou and the failing health of Mba Obame have made the run-up to December’s parliamentary vote just a little easier for Ali Bongo.

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Togo
Gnassingbe ‘treason’ trial underway

The trial of Kpatcha Gnassingbe, half brother of the head of state, on treason charges related to an alleged coup d’etat in 2009, puts the spotlight on Togo’s real security chief.

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Spotlight | Cameroon
Presidential elections: Biya's last stand

Cameroonian President Paul Biya, 78, knows that he is taking a big gamble by standing for re-election in October's presidential poll. In office for the past 29 years, the discreet, inscrutable Biya knows that his sheen of international respectability in [.

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Spotlight | Central Africa, West Africa
Cleaning up African politics

Is the African Union just a tad out of touch? While young people, who make up the vast majority of the population in Africa, have been demonstrating in the streets of Tunis, Algiers and Cairo, on January 28 Obiang Nguema [.

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

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Spotlight | Togo
Faure coached by his peers in outfoxing the opposition

Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
The murky ‘putsch' against Obiang bolsters relations with Biya

Congo
Mangbama's head on a plate

Congo, Senegal
Wade confides in Sassou

Senegal
Macky’s men move in

Spotlight | Gabon
Ali Bongo's unquenchable thirst for power

Senegal
Washington and Paris want Wade out

Mali
Tuareg MNLA dominates elections

Spotlight | Senegal
Wade set on third term

Gabon
Bongo’s party headed for landslide

Cameroon
Biya throws bone to opposition

Gabon
Bongo faces polls unchallenged

Togo
Gnassingbe ‘treason’ trial underway

Spotlight | Cameroon
Presidential elections: Biya's last stand

Spotlight | Central Africa, West Africa
Cleaning up African politics

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Spotlight | Togo Faure coached by his peers in outfoxing the opposition

Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea The murky ‘putsch' against Obiang bolsters relations with Biya

Congo Mangbama's head on a plate

Congo, Senegal Wade confides in Sassou

Senegal Macky’s men move in

Spotlight | Gabon Ali Bongo's unquenchable thirst for power

Senegal Washington and Paris want Wade out

Mali Tuareg MNLA dominates elections

Spotlight | Senegal Wade set on third term

Gabon Bongo’s party headed for landslide

Cameroon Biya throws bone to opposition

Gabon Bongo faces polls unchallenged

Togo Gnassingbe ‘treason’ trial underway

Spotlight | Cameroon Presidential elections: Biya's last stand

Spotlight | Central Africa, West Africa Cleaning up African politics

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

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

Spotlight | Central Africa, West Africa
Elections: Sub-Saharan winter drags on

Spotlight | Togo
Faure coached by his peers in outfoxing the opposition

Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
The murky ‘putsch' against Obiang bolsters relations with Biya

Congo
Mangbama's head on a plate

Congo, Senegal
Wade confides in Sassou

Senegal
Macky’s men move in

Spotlight | Gabon
Ali Bongo's unquenchable thirst for power

Senegal
Washington and Paris want Wade out

Mali
Tuareg MNLA dominates elections

Spotlight | Senegal
Wade set on third term

Gabon
Bongo’s party headed for landslide

Cameroon
Biya throws bone to opposition

Gabon
Bongo faces polls unchallenged

Togo
Gnassingbe ‘treason’ trial underway

Spotlight | Cameroon
Presidential elections: Biya's last stand

Spotlight | Central Africa, West Africa
Cleaning up African politics