AFRICA : Alassane Ouattara and Macky Sall, Anatole Collinet Makosso, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
Senegal: Ouattara and Sall’s unlikely double get-togetherWhile Alassane Ouattara and Macky Sall have never been particularly close during the last...
Month : May 2023
GUINEA/MALI : Conakry acquires South African armoured vehicles
The services of Guinean Defence Minister Aboubacar Sidiki Camara, who is nicknamed Idi Amin, recently ordered a batch of light...
MOZAMBIQUE : Impact report adds to TotalEnergies’ hurdles on road to LNG resumption
A report on humanitarian issues commissioned in February by TotalEnergies from the writer and former French ambassador to Senegal Jean-Christophe Ruffin paints a generally positive...
LIBYA : Sovereign fund boss Hassan launches PR campaign ahead of Brussels arrest warrant hearing
Ali Mahmoud Hassan, the chairman of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), is fighting to overturn the international arrest warrant issued...
MOZAMBIQUE : EU plans to financially support SADC troops in Cabo Delgado
The European Union is working on a new financial package for the military of the Southern African Development Community (SADC)....
SAHEL : Nouakchott’s plans to revive G5 Sahel
The end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan was intense for President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani’s officials, who were busy...
GUINEA : On the trail of Papa Fofana, Mamadi Doumbouya’s enigmatic adviser
The appointment was, like Fodé Amadou Fofana himself, discreet, verging on secretive. Only a chosen few from junta leader Mamadi Doumbouya’s innermost circle were kept...
BOTSWANA/DRC : Tshisekedi inspired by Botswana’s experience with HB Antwerp
The DRC president met up with an old acquaintance during his 9-12 May visit to Gaborone: Rafael Papismedov, one of...
SUDAN : Security Council mulls renewal of UNITAMS mandate
The UN Security Council is holding a series of consultations as it prepares to renew the mandate of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in...
TUNISIA : Gérald Darmanin aborts Tunis trip
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin was supposed to have accompanied his Italian counterpart Matteo Piantedosi on a visit to Tunis on 16 but his assertion...
