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The Burkinabe businessman Idrissa Nassa. ©Twitter

Inner circles Business Mining 01/03/2021

Which of his many connections is Idrissa Nassa calling on to boost business?

Diplomacy 01/03/2021

Faure Gnassingbé to review progress on transition in Lomé on 8 March

Togo President Faure Gnassingbé. ©Christophe Morin/IP3 Press/MaxPPP

Oil & gas 26/02/2021

Ex-Tullow Oil boss Paul McDade's new life

Since being forced into retirement a year ago, Paul McDade has embarked on a new adventure in west African oil thanks to Sterling Energy and is now keen to start buying assets. [...]

Politics 26/02/2021

Air Sahel inches along runway but remains far from take-off

Air Sahel, a five-nation project born in 2015, is not going to get into the air any time soon. A new report notably does not call for its imminent launch but instead proposes open-sky measures in G5 states to help existing airlines. [...]

Business 25/02/2021

Strauss-Kahn pursues his business prospecting marathon in Cotonou

Former International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who now heads his own Parnasse International consulting company, has been in the Beninese capital, Cotonou, since Sunday 21 February. [...]

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Erdogan sets out to conquer Africa

Keen to reassert Turkey's international status, and also to help Turkish companies to break into the African market, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been spearheading a major diplomatic and business drive in West and North Africa. [...]

Diplomacy 19/02/2021

3,000-strong African Union force in Sahel abandoned

The project spearheaded by the African Union's former peace and security commissioner Smaïl Chergui to create a pan-African force of 3,000 men looks like being dropped by his successor Bankole Adeoye, who is nevertheless keen for the AU to play a central role in the Sahel as France prepares for a "substantial" troop withdrawal this summer. [...]

Business Defence 18/02/2021

Erstwhile military ops stalwart ICS faces liquidation

International Chartering Systems (ICS) boss Philippe de Jonquières, whose firm has carried out countless airlifts for the French military, plans to shut down the company after nearly four years of judicial investigation that has failed to lead to an indictment. [...]

Chadian President Idriss Deby welcomes his Burkinabé counterpart Roch Marc Christian Kabore to N'Djamena on 15 February.

Business 18/02/2021

From posh presidential jets to cargo planes, Bonkoungou has something for everyone

Mahamadou Bonkoungou, owner of Air transport company LTI, recently purchased a new luxury jet, used by the president of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, among others. He also invested in a freighter for his construction company Ebomaf. [...]

Operation Barkhane soldiers in Burkina Faso.

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The Sahel threatened by a jihadist tornado

As the Sahel security crisis worsens, with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) increasingly active, the states in the region find themselves in an ever more vulnerable position. [...]

Mining 09/02/2021

Miners anxious to know new government's position on VAT refunds

Last year was defined by the Covid-19 pandemic and presidential election preparations. This year, mining firms in Burkina Faso are hoping the issue of late VAT credit payments will be back on the agenda. [...]

President of Burkina Faso Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.

Diplomacy 03/02/2021

Kaboré plans to make a short trip to Europe

President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré of Burkina Faso, who was re-elected in November, is due to travel to Paris on 10 February. [...]

Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso, who chairs the Grande Loge du Congo.

Politics 02/02/2021

Africa's masonic grand masters using square and compasses for political gain

Although they forbid both atheism and political debate, Africa's so-called "regular" masonic lodges, led by Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso, are being torn apart by the political ambitions of their grand masters. [...]

Business 01/02/2021

From Michael Jackson to Ghana's elite, Nicky Wilson's networks stretch far and wide

The mysterious and influential Togolese businessman Nicky Wilson is close to all of Ghana's decision-makers and knows numerous African presidents. [...]

Mining 01/02/2021

Endeavour Mining's new acquisition, Semafo, made to pay its debts

Canadian gold producer Semafo, bought by Endeavour Mining last year, has been ordered to pay sums owed to a transporter that worked on its mines in Burkina Faso, Guinea and Niger. [...]

Diplomacy 01/02/2021

Embaló's hush-hush campaign for ECOWAS chair

President Umaro Sissoco Embaló is working the region to pave his way to the chairmanship of the regional bloc. [...]

Meeting between Dominique Strauss-Kahn (left) and Guinea Bissau head of state Umaro Sissoco Embaló, Bissau, 15 January.

Business 29/01/2021

Strauss-Kahn pitch to Embaló

In Bissau on 15 January to meet with President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, the former International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has offered to help Guinea Bissau raise Chinese funding for infrastructure projects. [...]

Politics Defence 26/01/2021

Barbaricum and Yorktown prepare US special forces for their Sahel deployment

Defence service providers Barbaricum and Yorktown will help acclimatise US special forces before they head to the Sahel. [...]

Burkinabe President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in December 2018.

Diplomacy 22/01/2021

Kaboré's turn to meet Macron to discuss Sahel

After presidents Mohamed Ould Ghazouani of Mauritania, Idriss Déby of Chad and Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger visited Emmanuel Macron in Paris, it's now Roch Marc Christian Kaboré's turn [...]

Former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Business 20/01/2021

Strauss-Kahn turns to Bissau as he scrabbles for new contracts

Having failed to take advantage of the G20's debt suspension initiative, which brought in new African contracts for all his competitors, former International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is now offering his services as a consultant in Africa's smallest capitals. [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron visiting Gao, northern Mali.

Diplomacy Defence 15/01/2021

France's secret plans for Sahel military withdrawal

Emmanuel Macron is expected to announce a small troop decrease in February, while behind the scenes there are several withdrawal options at play, some that would have France's Barkhane force halved by the end of 2021. [...]

Burkinabè President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.

Mining 14/01/2021

Kaboré overhauls mining portfolio in politically calculated move

After supporting for months his controversial mining minister Oumarou Idani, the Burkinabe president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré has decided in his second term to appoint to the post one of his more high-profile party figures together with a technical expert from the sector to advise him. [...]

South African mining magnate Patrice Motsepe.

Diplomacy 13/01/2021

Billionaire Patrice Motsepe goes all in for African football's top job

On 12 March, the Confederation of African Football will elect a new president and South African mining magnate Patrice Motsepe is busy pulling strings to give the role his best shot. [...]

Diplomacy 12/01/2021

Brexit, troubled economy won't stop UK aid to the Sahel

As the UK continues to grapple with the economic criris triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic and the fallout of its exit from the EU, the Foreign Office chose to maintain its financial support to Sahel region aid. [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron at the One Planet Summit in New York City on 29 September 2018.

Diplomacy Business 07/01/2021

Industrialists and lobbyists line up behind Macron's agroecology project at One Planet Summit

The "Africa agroecology initiative" to be launched on 11 January in Paris by Emmanuel Macron, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani and Prince Charles has been put together behind the scenes by Geocoton's deputy general manager Karim Aït Talb and the lobbyist Hamza Hraoui, who have brought several leading agribusiness players on board. [...]

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Which of his many connections is Idrissa Nassa calling on to boost business?

Faure Gnassingbé to review progress on transition in Lomé on 8 March

Ex-Tullow Oil boss Paul McDade's new life

Air Sahel inches along runway but remains far from take-off