Richard Attias urges Ali Bongo to stump up!
Launched with grand pomp in 2012, the NYFA is in trouble. Libreville still hasn't finished paying for the 2015 event… [...]
Following on from gold, oil and cotton, consultants are now cashing in on the great economic gatherings and conferences being held across the continent. French firms Richard Attias & Associates and ESL & Network, British concern WPP and Ivorian group Voodoo are vying to snap up contracts to organize these highly lucrative forums throughout the continent, from Morocco to Madagascar and Gabon. Playing host to these events comes with a hefty price tag. It is however, a price African presidents are willing to pay to improve their image by pulling in entrepreneurs and the key players of the economic world. A move often made in vain.
Launched with grand pomp in 2012, the NYFA is in trouble. Libreville still hasn't finished paying for the 2015 event… [...]
Madagascar's presidential election next year is already stirring a lot of excitement among French public relations firms. Stephane Fouks, vice [...]
French "strategic advisory" consultancy ESL & Network is better established in Morocco than it is in Tunisia. It nevertheless intends [...]
Abdelaziz Belkhodja, grandson of President Beji Caid Essebsi ("BCE"), has joined Agence Publics, the events subsidiary of French lobbying group [...]
French firm ESL & Network's new consulting branch for governments, ESL.Gov, finalized a report on Guinea's mines in the hope [...]
Setting up shop only recently in Morocco, the French lobbying agency ESL & Network is quickly putting together an impressive [...]
Former health minister Yasmina Baddou, who was suspended from her management job at the Istiqlal party by secretary general Hamid [...]
Via the broadcasting authority Haute Autorite de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HACA) and following a tender call, the Ivorian state has [...]
The proliferation of high-level gatherings delivers windfalls for the canny player. [...]
Local PR firm Voodoo has been the market leader for some time, but Ocean Ogilvy is catching up fast. [...]
International lobbying and public relations companies are already crowding around the presidential palace to win the contract to stage the Organisation internationale de la francophonie summit (OIF – international organisation of French-speaking countries) in November 2015. [...]