KENYA/SOUTH SUDAN : Ruto bends over backwards to win over Kiir
On 14 September, the day after his inauguration, William Ruto met Salva Kiir for one of the first bilateral meetings...
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UNITED STATES/LIBYA : US prepares to try alleged Lockerbie bombmaker
Since it was announced that Abu Agila Mohammed Masud Kheir al-Marimi, the Libyan national suspected of involvement in bringing down...
SOUTH AFRICA : Ramaphosa opposes changes to central bank mandate
This was a hot topic at the last elective conference of the African National Congress (ANC) last December. The 4,000...
NIGER : Veolia on verge of new deal in Niamey
In its spacious premises in the Parisian suburb of Aubervilliers, Veolia’s Africa department, led by Philippe Bourdeaux, is brimming with...
DRC : Top adviser Bifort ousted as Tshisekedi purges his inner circle
Out of the blue, Félix Tshisekedi made a big decision. In Kinshasa on 14 January, the Agence nationale de renseignement (ANR), the country’s main intelligence...
MAURITANIA : How Ghazouani co-opted Aziz’s top officials
Relations between the two former best friends, the current Mauritanian president Mohamed Ould Ghazouani and his predecessor Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, have deteriorated to the...
EGYPT : French senate to help train Sisi’s reformed upper house
French senate president Gérard Larcher is expected to travel to Cairo as early as March to present a project to...
SOUTHERN AFRICA : US vanilla importers battle for lower minimum price
US vanilla importers, from the giants McCormick & Company and Cook Flavoring Company to the more modest Vanilla Bean Kings,...
IVORY COAST : Ivorian employers’ association boss Ahmed Cissé selects his team
Ahmed Cissé, the Ivorian businessman and founder of Brandon & Mcain who on 30 November was elected president of the...
ALGERIA/MOROCCO/AFRICAN UNION : Algiers and Rabat battle for 2024 African Union presidency
The rivalry between Morocco and Algeria is likely to be at the heart of the conference of African Union leaders next month in Addis Ababa....
