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Brazzaville suffers major setback in Commisimpex arbitration in Paris

Denis Sassou Nguesso at Brazzaville airport in March 2023.
Denis Sassou Nguesso at Brazzaville airport in March 2023. © Jacques Witt/Pool/Abacapress.com

An arbitration court in Paris has rejected Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso's latest appeal to overturn a tribunal ruling ordering Congo to pay over $1.5bn to Mohsen Hojeij's company, Commisimpex. It's a legal setback that exposes the methods of the lawyers and private investigators hired by Brazzaville to try to establish a corruption link between the Lebanese businessman and one of the arbitrators.

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Central Africa

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West Africa

Ivory Coast
Ouattara takes back control of country's strategic supervisory bodies

Alassane Ouattara shakes hands with the new prime minister, Robert Beugré Mambé, at the new government's first Council of Ministers meeting on 18 October 2023.
Alassane Ouattara shakes hands with the new prime minister, Robert Beugré Mambé, at the new government's first Council of Ministers meeting on 18 October 2023. © Luc Gnago/Reuters

Alassane Ouattara is set to return a number of key public organisations that were previously part of the prime minister's office into the hands of the presidency. These include the influential Ivory Coast development consultancy BNETD.

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