Spotlight | Africa
Kremlin's African power vacuum after Mikhail Bogdanov's dismissal

Inner circles | DRC
Saleh Assi, a businessman shunned by his Lebanese compatriots

Spotlight | Gabon
In the shadow of Emmanuel Macron, Eramet's delicate situation

Inner circles | Nigeria
The architects behind President Tinubu's diplomacy

Spotlight | Niger
Junta's difficulties in locating US hostage abducted by jihadists

Inner circles | Ethiopia
Inside Abiy Ahmed's circle of new business barons

Mining, infrastructure, banking... The leader of the Prosperity Party has entrusted a team of young financiers with the keys to the country's strategic projects. They have forged close links with a network of businessmen and intermediaries who have become key players on the Ethiopian economic scene.

Spotlight | South Africa
Behind the rapprochement between Pretoria and Paris

Emmanuel Macron's visit to Johannesburg for the G20 summit strengthened ties with South Africa. This relationship is strategically important as France, marginalised in the Sahel, seeks new alliances on the continent, and Pretoria, on poor terms with the United States, looks towards Europe.

Inner circles | Madagascar
All the president's military men

The organisation of the Présidence de la Refondation de la République marks a significant shift towards the militarisation of Madagascar's executive branch. The new structure concentrates power around the colonel and his four advisers.

Spotlight | Libya, Sudan
Khalifa Haftar restructures his forces in the south, in the shadow of the Emiratis

As the war in Sudan drags on, the eastern Libyan strongman's clan is reorganising the troops in the south of the country, which control the supply routes fuelling the border conflict.

Inner circles | Egypt
Khaled el-Enany sizes up crew to navigate turbulent tides at UNESCO

Recently appointed by the United Nations organisation's Executive Board, its future director-general is tallying up who his allies are within a divided institution, marked by the recent departure of the United States.

Spotlight | Morocco
A thousand and one permutations for Mohammed VI's state visit to France