AFRICA : The New Guard: Gabon, Morocco, South Africa, DR Congo
Gabon: Marc Tchango, Ali Bongo’s spokesman in Port Gentil Thirty-four-year-old Marc Logan Tchango, special adviser to Gabonese President Ali Bongo,...
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GUINEA : Ismael Bah plays middleman between junta and French senators
On 18 March the French Senate will play host to a large delegation of Guinean officials who will discuss their...
FRANCE/SAHEL : Closed-door talks over future of French military presence in Sahel
Aside from addressing the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron is likely to cover another topic when he gives his New Year’s speech to...
AFRICA : Mamadi Doumbouya, Paul Biya, Mohamed Benchaaboun and Zinedine Zidane
Guinea: Colonel Doumbouya’s €400,000 wristwatchThough Mamadi Doumbouya’s partiality for military uniforms and medals has been on display to all, his...
IVORY COAST : Alassane Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo reconnect in secret
It had become one of the most serious points of tension between the founder of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI),...
BURKINA FASO : Under sanctions, Nordgold adjusts its strategy
After its new managing director Georgy Valeryevich Smirnov visited Ouagadougou from 5 to 7 December (AI, 08/12/22), Nordgold, owned by...
WEST AFRICA : French investigators probe former African logistics giant Necotrans
Grégory Quérel and his brother Emmanuel Quérel, who last month were still to be found in Dakar, are in the sights of France’s OCLCIFF anti-corruption...
ANGOLA : US Supreme Court setback for Aenergy’s $550m damages claim
The Portuguese electricity producer Aenergy had hoped that the US justice system would look into its dispute with Angola, which...
GUINEA : West African elections slow ECOWAS negotiations with junta in Conakry
The first weeks of 2023 have been busy for Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) diplomats. The regional organisation...
IVORY COAST : As he tussles with cocoa giants, Ouattara turns to China
Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara is wooing Chinese private and public investors, encouraging them to set up cocoa processing plants to...
