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Defence Diplomacy 26/09/2022

France to provide Burkina Faso with military and financial support

While France has just completed its withdrawal from Mali, Paris is preparing to provide nearly €15m in budgetary aid to Ouagadougou. It is also considering a military support programme to strengthen Burkina Faso's armed forces as they face increased threats from Islamist militant groups. [...]

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Mining 23/09/2022

Nordgold gets creative to refine its African gold in the Emirates

Alexei Mordashov, Nordgold's main shareholder, has been targeted by European sanctions. © Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

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Defence Diplomacy 21/09/2022

Inside the EU's new security lab

Diplomacy 20/09/2022

UN: Ministers, military, diplomats... Issoufou's Sahel task force

Former Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou. © Ludovic Marin/EPA

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Defence Diplomacy 09/09/2022

Rwanda readies to deploy troops to northern Benin

Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) soldiers on mission in Mozambique, July 2021. © Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP

Finance Mining Business 09/09/2022

Néré Mining rocked by shareholders' dispute

After the Karma gold mine was raided once again by attackers on 20 August, forcing owner Néré Mining to temporarily halt its extraction operations, the firm's deputy managing director Stefan Maré was fired by its co-founders Grégory Quérel and Elie Justin Ouédraogo. [...]

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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. [...]

Operation Barkhane soldiers in Burkina Faso.

Defence 08/09/2022

Turkey's armed drones make third Sahel conquest Free

The Burkina Faso army has started operating five Turkish Bayraktar TB2 attack drones. [...]

In Focus Business 29/08/2022

High hopes and pitfalls ahead after Marriott, Loum Diagne and Fakhoury take over Club Med sites

Businessmen in Senegal and Ivory Coast are dreaming of building luxury resorts on sites abandoned by the French operator Club Med. But Covid has hit the tourism sector hard. [...]

Archive photo of the Club Med Amun hotel in Aswan, Egypt.

Diplomacy 29/08/2022

UN expert panels at the heart of Security Council tensions

The appointment of UN-mandated expert panels is being increasingly hotly debated in New York. On one side are the P3 members of the US, France and UK, and on the other the P2 of Russia and China. [...]

Diplomacy 19/08/2022

Why the next ECOWAS summit will be held in Abuja

Although he has been president of the Economic Community of West African States since July, Umaro Sissoco Embaló will not host the next summit of the regional organisation in Guinea-Bissau. [...]

Diplomacy 26/07/2022

French ex-foreign minister coaches successor and new defence minister on African issues

French President Emmanuel Macron has asked his ex-minister Jean-Yves Le Drian to brief the new defence minister Sébastien Lecornu and the new foreign minister Catherine Colonna on African issues. [...]

Diplomacy 20/07/2022

French Ministry of Foreign Affairs set to name two Sahel ambassadors

Two Sahel embassies should soon see their new appointees arrive: Nouakchott and Niamey. [...]

Defence 18/07/2022

Volion Global Logistics gears up to take post-Antonov African pickings Free

The fledgling company found by a pool of military veterans and Africa experts is hoping to provide solutions to the shortage of wide-body cargo planes caused by the war in Ukraine. It is exploring several options, including a highly hypothetical plan to refit certain US military aircraft for civilian use. [...]

Defence 14/07/2022

Special forces general Bruno Baratz set to take over helm of Barkhane

The three-star general Bruno Baratz, the head of France's special forces and former leader of the Eléments français au Sénégal (EFS), looks set to take charge of French operations in the Sahel in the coming days. [...]

Diplomacy 12/07/2022

Canada aid cut riles Burkinabe government but indirect funding continues

Some officials in Burkina Faso have expressed dismay at Ottawa's suspension of its direct budgetary support in the wake of the coup d'état. But Canada, the country's leading foreign investor through its mining companies, is maintaining the bulk of its aid. [...]

Commodity traders 12/07/2022

Abidjan and Accra allied against multinationals in new cocoa war

The heads of Ghana Cocobod and Ivory Coast's Conseil Café Cacao were in Accra last week to refine their joint strategy in the face of the industry's trading giants and industrialists, who are considering diversifying their supplies elsewhere. [...]

Diplomacy 07/07/2022

New ECOWAS commissioners unveiled following intense lobbying Free

Following the change of president at the ECOWAS commission, seven new commissioners were appointed at the regional organisation's 3 July summit in Accra. Yet Dakar is not happy that it didn't get the "peace and security" post. [...]

Umaro Sissoco Embaló (centre), president of Guinea-Bissau and new chairman of ECOWAS, in Accra, Ghana, on July 3, 2022.

Politics 05/07/2022

Ouagadougou ponders G5 Sahel membership after Mali's exit

Ces dernières semaines, la question sensible de l'appartenance du Burkina Faso au cadre de coopération sécuritaire et de développement du G5 Sahel a été abordée durant au moins trois conseil des ministres. [...]

In Focus Diplomacy 04/07/2022

From Abidjan to Doha: the secret missions of former minister Djibrill Bassolé

Legal problems prevent the erstwhile foreign minister of Burkina Faso setting foot in his own country, but that hasn't stopped him discreetly advising junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba. Thanks to his people skills, he is also doing diplomatic work in Qatar, Ivory Coast and Paris. [...]

Former Burkina Faso Foreign Minister Djibrill Yipènè Bassolé (photo from April 2012).

Diplomacy 01/07/2022

ECOWAS leaders at loggerheads over successor to Akufo-Addo

The summit in Accra on 3 July should officialise the appointment of a new ECOWAS chairperson to succeed the Ghanaian Nana Akufo-Addo as well of new commissioners for the regional organisation. Two electric subjects that have greatly increased tensions between West Africa's leaders. [...]

Defence 29/06/2022

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France to provide Burkina Faso with military and financial support

Nordgold gets creative to refine its African gold in the Emirates

Inside the EU's new security lab

UN: Ministers, military, diplomats... Issoufou's Sahel task force

Rwanda readies to deploy troops to northern Benin

Néré Mining rocked by shareholders' dispute

The Sahel threatened by a jihadist tornado

Turkey's armed drones make third Sahel conquest Free

High hopes and pitfalls ahead after Marriott, Loum Diagne and Fakhoury take over Club Med sites

UN expert panels at the heart of Security Council tensions

Why the next ECOWAS summit will be held in Abuja

French ex-foreign minister coaches successor and new defence minister on African issues

French Ministry of Foreign Affairs set to name two Sahel ambassadors

Volion Global Logistics gears up to take post-Antonov African pickings Free

Special forces general Bruno Baratz set to take over helm of Barkhane

Canada aid cut riles Burkinabe government but indirect funding continues

Abidjan and Accra allied against multinationals in new cocoa war

New ECOWAS commissioners unveiled following intense lobbying Free

Ouagadougou ponders G5 Sahel membership after Mali's exit

From Abidjan to Doha: the secret missions of former minister Djibrill Bassolé

ECOWAS leaders at loggerheads over successor to Akufo-Addo

EU wants four African navies to fight piracy together

Former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon undertook discreet African tour

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