Algeria, Ivory Coast
Algiers and Abidjan look to strengthen trade

Africa
VIPs to flock to Africa business summit in Singapore

Organised every two years, the Africa Singapore Business Forum will hold its seventh edition in August and will be attended by more than 30 figures from the world of commerce working on the continent.

Ivory Coast
Ivorian employers' association boss Ahmed Cissé selects his team

To assist him throughout his term at the helm of the CGECI, the businessman has handpicked three figures with close connections to the government.

Algeria
Algiers goes after ill-gotten gains

Algeria is to set up a new agency to manage frozen, seized or confiscated assets as part of its plans to fight corruption. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune told his ministers in a recent cabinet meeting that he wanted the project to move ahead quickly.

Ivory Coast
Ahmed Cissé sole candidate to succeed Jean-Marie Ackah as employers' association head

The coming election to succeed Jean-Marie Ackah as president of the Ivory Coast employers' association CGECI is expected to be a mere formality, as the electoral committee has received only the application of Ahmed Cissé.

Palace Intrigues
João Lourenço, Macky Sall, Jacques Ychalingonza Nduru, Laurent Gbagbo, Didier Drogba

Intrigues big and small... Every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

Angola/Senegal Lourenço cuts short Dakar trip after Sall leaves

DRC Military intelligence chief finds wire bug

Ivory Coast Gbagbo's bank account startlingly empty

Ivory Coast Super luxury La Résidence Hotel welcomes VIPs

Algeria, France
After a slow start, Medef turns to Tebboune-era employers' organisation CREA

On the sidelines of the Franco-Algerian high-level intergovernmental committee held in Algiers on 9 and 10 October, Medef vice-president Fabrice Le Saché had a long discussion with Kamel Moula, president of the Algerian Economic Renewal Council, CREA.

Algeria
CREA employers' federation seeks to embody Algerian economic revival

Algeria's brand new CREA employers' federation has hit the ground running and established itself as a key player in the business community. It is keen to distance itself from the defunct business leaders' forum led by jailed oligarch Ali Haddad, a vestige of the last years of the Bouteflika regime.

Algeria, France
As they return to Algiers, French bosses caught between old and new worlds

Representatives of more than a dozen major French companies will later this month pay their first visit to Algiers in five years. But the government is unhappy with their umbrella organisation's continuing collaboration with a counterpart entity associated with the ousted Bouteflika administration.