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Corridors of power 28/06/2017

Deby's hand in Sant'Egidio pact

An agreement in Rome between armed groups and the authorities in Bangui was largely inspired by Chad's president. [...]

Business circles 31/05/2017

Chinese in diamond stampede

Companies from Beijing are jostling one another for gems now that the diamond market is gradually returning to normal. [...]

Business circles 17/05/2017

Touadera in Tel Aviv in bid to safeguard diamond trade

Central African Republic president Faustin Touadera flew to Israel in hopes of bolstering the diamond business that’s vital to reviving CAR’s economy. [...]

Breaking news 03/05/2017

Israeli businessman Jacques Edery returns to Bangui

After having run into problems with the regime of Francois Bozize (WAN 622), Israeli businessman Jacques Edery is looking to [...]

Corridors of power 03/05/2017

Sant’Egidio leads the way to Rome

Several leading figures in the former Seleka rebellion visited Rome [...]

Business circles 03/05/2017

The United Nations tight with its money

A simple matter of paying a bill held up deployment [...]

POWER BROKERS 15/03/2017

Souaibou Cisse, business finder for Bangui

A former Equatorial Guinea ambassador and close adviser to president Obiang Nguema, Souaibou Cisse was given an official post by [...]

CORRIDORS OF POWER 01/03/2017

Faustin Touadera, president of Bangui!

The President heads a country under the thumb of warlords. [...]

CORRIDORS OF POWER 15/02/2017

Visa bonanza probed

The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched an internal [...]

Breaking News 03/02/2017

French foreign ministry investigates embassy in Bangui

The French foreign ministry has ordered an internal audit of the functioning of the French embassy in Bangui. According to our [...]

CORRIDORS OF POWER 01/02/2017

Remi Marechaux makes himself at home in Bangui

Remi Marechaux, the French foreign ministry’s new director for Africa [...]

POWER BROKERS 01/02/2017

Amadou Boubacar Cisse makes a comeback

Having withdrawn from political life in Niger after the failure of the Coalition pour l’Alternance 2016 to halt the reelection [...]

Breaking news 30/01/2017

Jose Eduardo Dos Santos returns to the fray

After the failure of Denis Sassou Nguesso, now occupied by his own problems in Congo-B, to mediate an end to [...]

BUSINESS CIRCLES 18/01/2017

President Touadera, China’s sales rep

The head of state has reached out to China several times since he came to power. [...]

Breaking News 09/11/2016

Alassane Ouattara pleads Touadera’s case with Hollande

President Alassane Ouattara is expected at the Elysee Palace on November 22 for a working meeting with Francois Hollande. Their [...]

BUSINESS CIRCLES 02/11/2016

FaustinTouadera has two lifelines : mines and transportation

Despite the gloom and doom prevailing in Central African Republic private companies in the mining and transport sectors are looking for business in Bangui. [...]

BUSINESSMEN 14/06/2016

Fatrane cheered by resumption of diamond exports

Central African Republic’s mines minister, Leopold Mboli Fatrane, is to shortly oversee a resumption of diamond exports by CAR when [...]

CORRIDORS OF POWER 08/06/2016

Bollee back on the job

After spending two years in Ivory Coast where he oversaw [...]

BUSINESS CIRCLES 08/06/2016

Exact-Conseil off and running

The former prime minister under Ange Felix Patasse between 2001-2003, [...]

CORRIDORS OF POWER 25/05/2016

Touadera nostalgic for Bozize era

The new leader of Central African Republic first appointed people close to him to the government and now he has done the same for his staff. [...]

Breaking News 13/05/2016

Operation Sangaris troops to stay on

President Francois Hollande of France should announce the official end of Operation Sangaris when he visits Bangui for a few [...]

CORRIDORS OF POWER 11/05/2016

Meckassoua’s remote-controlled election as speaker

Abdoul Karim Meckassoua’s election as head of the national assembly [...]

CORRIDORS OF POWER 20/04/2016

Touadera calls old Bozize guard back to duty

The new president has put associates of the former leader overthrown in 2013 back in harness. [...]

CORRIDORS OF POWER 06/04/2016

End of Sangaris will boost Barkhane Free

Budgetary reasons, not the more stable political situation in Bangui, are behind the decision to wind down Operation Sangaris, which will free up more resources for Operation Barkhane. [...]

CORRIDORS OF POWER 23/03/2016

Samba Panza places team

Some transitional government figures are waiting to get jobs in [...]

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