MADAGASCAR : Paris and Antananarivo hold discreet talks about French convicted Apollo 21 coup plotter
The trip was carried out in absolute discretion. On 2 December, Madagascar’s justice minister, François Rakotozafy, and the chief of...
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AFRICA : Palace Intrigues: Alassane Ouattara, Henri Konan Bedie, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Emmanuel Macron and Assimi Goita
Ivory Coast: Bedie’s secret call to OuattaraIn late November, we understand that the president of Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara spoke...
ALGERIA/FRANCE/SENEGAL : The man who advises Gérald Darmanin on Africa
After Algiers, where he stayed from 18 to 19 December, the French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, arrives in...
NIGERIA : Crude oil theft: who are the tycoons at the heart of the investigation?
The drive to end oil theft in Nigeria, where 450,000 barrels disappear every day, is in full swing. Several of the culprits, who are particularly...
UNITED STATES/NAMIBIA : Windhoek’s green hydrogen hopes dashed in Washington
President Hage Geingob was counting on his stay in Washington to promote Namibia as the new promised land of the...
NIGERIA : Defence giants Leonardo and PolyTech top Nigeria pre-election spending
It’s a done deal at last. After years of talks with Nigerian authorities, the Italian defence giant Leonardo signed a...
MALI/SENEGAL : From Dakar to Bamako, the grand designs of traditional aristocrats
From his villa in the Sacré-Coeur district, the High Serigne of Dakar, Pape Ibrahima Diagne, is busy preparing a large-scale West African parallel diplomatic operation....
DRC : Glencore forks out $180m to Kinshasa over corruption allegations
Several senior Glencore executives were involved in preparing the trader’s agreement to compensate RDC $180m for its responsibility in past corruption, as announced on 5...
CONGO/FRANCE : Chrysoula Zacharopoulou’s tour of the two Congos
France’s secretary of state for the Francophonie, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, is to visit Brazzaville from 18 to 20 December to discuss the One Planet Summit with Congolese...
LIBYA : New Libyan ambassador due in Paris by year’s end
The new Libyan ambassador to Paris, Khaled Kagigi, will officially take up his post next week. He replaces Hamed Ahmed Elhouderi, who had been in...
