N°635 - Paris, 05/17/2012

Frédéric Lejeal
FRANCE
AFRICA		 Editor in Chief
African advisors cross paths as guard changes
Francois Hollande, who was sworn in as France’s new president on May 15, is keen to get on with hiring his cabinet ministers and advisors and the pointers suggest that that a younger, more feminine and more ethnically diverse team is likely to be put in place. (...)   [630 words]   [$11,2]

POWER PLAYERS
IVORY COAST/TOGO
Gbagbo loyalists find welcome in Lome
   Laurent Gbagbo’s partisans scattered when he was forcibly removed from power in April last year. A number of them have since resurfaced in neighbouring Togo, West Africa Newsletter can reveal.  (...)  [230 words]   [$7]
IVORY COAST
More ICC arrests planned
   Laurent Gbagbo looks set to be joined in The Hague by others suspected of war crimes during Ivory Coast’s post-electoral crisis.  (...)  [204 words]   [$7]

COURT CIRCULAR
IVORY COAST
Ouattara plans Holy Land visit
   Initially planned for earlier this year, Alassane Ouattara’s visit to Israel will take place mid June.  (...)  [82 words]   [$2,1]
CONGO-B
Okemba not welcome at Elysee Palace
   In contrast with Ali Bongo, who is still in shock over Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential defeat, Denis Sassou Nguesso  (...)  [54 words]   [$2,1]
IVORY COAST
Presidential fleet grows
   The Ivorian state has acquired a fourth presidential aircraft, a Beechcraft King Air.  (...)  [74 words]   [$2,1]
BENIN
Boni Yayi wants IWA slot
   President Thomas Boni Yayi is still hoping his man might be appointed leader of the International Workers’ Association (IWA), despite competition from other African nations.  (...)  [239 words]   [$7]
BURKINA FASO
Compaore looks to the French left
   Blaise Compaore is not unhappy about Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential defeat and has been cultivating his Socialist contacts to regain access to France’s corridors of power.  (...)  [353 words]   [$7]
CAMEROON
Marafa’s letter from purgatory
   Arrested in connection with the Albatross affair, Marafa Hamido Yaya, the former minister for territorial administration, claims he has been the victim of a plot.  (...)  [259 words]   [$7]
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
‘Teodorin’ and Yves Saint Laurent
   President Teodoro Obiang’s son splashed out on numerous items that previously belonged to French couturier Yves Saint Laurent.  (...)  [159 words]   [$7]
EXCLUSIVE
MALI
Compaore oversteps Malian mark
   The cascade of crises in Mali triggered by the March 22 coup d’etat has seriously tested the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)’s unity.  (...)  [265 words]   [$7]

BUSINESS
IVORY COAST
GPMCI puts pressure on Abidjan
   Tensions are rising among mining companies in Ivory Coast, where the administration is proving hard to deal with  (...)  [137 words]   [$2,1]
BENIN
Talon sends emissaries to Boni Yayi
   Patrice Talon, the director of Benin Control, is trying to bring an end to his quarrel with the authorities in  (...)  [97 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA
APO's African business grows
   After Orange, Airtel, the presidency of Mozambique and the African Development Bank, the Dakar-based PR company  (...)  [81 words]   [$2,1]
IVORY COAST
Bollore wins Ivorian jackpot
   France's Bollore group is apparently suffering no ill-effects from its erstwhile relationship with Laurent Gbagbo.  (...)  [100 words]   [$2,1]
GUINEA
SIBG hauls Conakry before the ICSID
   In addition to GETMA, the World Bank’s International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)  (...)  [193 words]   [$2,1]
IVORY COAST
Credit Libanais poised to open in Abidjan
   Credit International du Senegal (CIS), a subsidiary of the group Credit Libanais Sal, is planning to open an office  (...)  [85 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S NEWS
GABON
DIBOTY PAMBU MANFUMA (Nebulia)
   The head of Nebulia, which specialises in computers and new technology, Diboty Pamby Manfuma is the Gabonese partner  (...)  [63 words]   [$2,1]
IVORY COAST
DEMBA DIOP (News-Eco)
   In his capacity as managing director of MTN Business-Cote d’Ivoire, a subsidiary of the South African telecommunications  (...)  [83 words]   [$2,1]



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