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NIGERIA Politics 05/06/2020

Buhari's new chief of staff Gambari helps AfDB boss Adesina face up to Trump Free

President Muhammadu Buhari's new chief of staff Ibrahim Gambari could not have arrived at a better time to help the chairman of the African Development Bank with his bid for a second mandate while the United States pushes for an external probe into his handling of the institution. [...]

SENEGAL Politics Road and rail 05/06/2020

Minister Youm makes room for WB to fund Dakar-Bamako line

With the creation of a state railway company, Senegal's minister of infrastructure and land transport is opening the door to World Bank funding to rehabilitate the Dakar-Bamako line. [...]

DRC Politics 04/06/2020

Tshisekedi's right-hand-man Jean-Marc Kabund felled by a text message

Jean-Marc Kabund, interim chairman of President Félix Tshisekiedi's party, the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social. ©Reuters

CENTRAL AFRICA WEST AFRICA Politics Diplomacy 03/06/2020

Security Council to probe Sahel army abuses

The United Nations Security Council has set itself a tall task for its 5 June meeting: overview the G5 Sahel States but also look into accusations of abuse against several of the coalition's national armed forces. [...]

GUINEA BISSAU Politics 03/06/2020

Umaro Sissoco Embaló visits Paris amid lockdown

Guinea-Bissau president Umaro Sissoco Embaló paid a quiet visit to the French capital last week. [...]

SpotlightMALI Politics 02/06/2020

Employers' group head tussles with IBK over Clément Dembélé's detention

Mali's top boss Mamadou Sinsy Coulibaly. ©Reuters

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ANGOLA Business Finance 28/05/2020

IMF calls for settlement of overindulgent dos Santos-era loans

As the IMF starts the third review of its Angolan programme, João Lourenço's administration is working overtime to seek repayments on the state-owned bank BPC's bad credit, now all held with Recredit. [...]

CONGO Politics 27/05/2020

No 20th birthday party for the DGRE

The DGRE external intelligence service, which was set up by President Denis Sassou Nguesso in 2001, was formally shut down by General Hilaire Moko, Sassou's nephew. [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 26/05/2020

Henri Konan Bédié ready for PDCI coronation on 12 June

The PDCI will be convening on 12 June to officially name its presidential candidate and at 86 years old the former Ivorian president still feels fit for the job. [...]

Spotlight GABON RWANDA SOMALIA Politics Politics 26/05/2020

Liban Soleman, the well-connected consultant newly appointed to the Rwanda Development Board.

From Bongo to Kagame: Liban Soleman is now tight with Rwanda's first family

The scion of a prominent Somali family that has spread itself across Africa, business consultant Liban Soleman, having served as Ali Bongo's chief of staff for five years, now works closely with the family of Rwanda's president. [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 25/05/2020

Amadou Gon Coulibaly (left) during his 2017 nomination, with Alassane Ouattara.

Under medical observation in Paris, Gon Coulibaly resists pressure to quit as prime minister

Ouattara and his team want Amadou Gon Coulibaly to step down and focus on the presidential race, but the prime minister fears doing so will diminish his influence. [...]

CONGO Politics 22/05/2020

DRC Minister of Finance Calixte Nganongo.

Calixte Nganongo, part-time finance minister

Congo's recently recovered finance minister Calixte Nganongo has rallied and got back to work. Denis Sassou Nguesso needs him to act as a counterweight to the all-powerful minister of major public works Jean-Jacques Bouya, whose sphere of influence is growing. [...]

ANGOLA FRANCE Politics 22/05/2020

Ana Dias Lourenço, first lady of Angola.

Diplomatic string-pulling to evacuate João Lourenço's ailing wife to Paris

France and the United States worked together to airlift the unwell Ana Dias Lourenço to Paris. [...]

CONGO Politics 21/05/2020

President Sassou's kin back rival runners for Brazzaville mayor

Several members of the first family have their own favourite for the capital's top job. [...]

BURKINA FASO Politics 20/05/2020

Abdoulaye Soma, founder of the political movement Soleil d'Avenir.

Abdoulaye Soma plans to do a Macron in presidential poll

Rivals President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré and opposition leader Zéphirin Diabré will have to contend with an up-and-coming third force in November's presidential election in the form of Abdoulaye Soma. [...]

DRC Politics 19/05/2020

Dominique Strauss-Kahn fails to land DRC's IMF consultancy contract

Despite making strenuous efforts, Parnasse, the consulting company of former French IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, failed to win the consulting contract it was chasing in DRC. It was beaten to it by Baker McKenzie, where Strauss-Kahn's successor at the IMF, Christine Lagarde, used to work. [...]

SENEGAL Politics 19/05/2020

The World Bank chooses DS Avocats to assist economy minister Amadou Hott with PPP reform

La Banque mondiale a finalement choisi le cabinet DS Avocats pour accompagner le projet de réforme des partenariats publics-privé (PPP). [...]

Focus GABON Politics Business 18/05/2020

Antoine Hayem's self-portrait from his personal site www.fullflaps.com, the only photo we could find of the discreet favourite pilot of the Bongo family.

Antoine Hayem, the charterer who keeps the Bongo family flying despite the lockdown

Despite borders being closed as part of the measures taken to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, the Gabonese presidency is making greater use than ever of its favourite private aviation service provider, Frenchman Antoine Hayem. Publicity-shy but highly active, he began working for Russian oligarchs and now spends his time meeting the demands of African presidencies and rock groups. [...]

GABON Politics 15/05/2020

Food aid makes for healthy public relations

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, leading political figures and entrepreneurs are finding that food donations are good for their image. [...]

DRC Politics Business 13/05/2020

Filimbi militant and coordinator, Floribert Anzuluni, branches out into consulting

After four years of exile during the Kabila era, the former banker and coordinator of the Filimbi citizen movement Floribert Anzuluni is back in Kinshasa and has set his economic intelligence firm, Nyfalm & Associés. [...]

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