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Son of the late Chadian president Idriss Deby, General Mahamat Idriss Deby. ©Christophe Petit Tesson/POOL/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

SpotlightCHAD Politics 07/05/2021

New masters of N'Djamena seek support against rebel threat

CONGO Politics 07/05/2021

Vadim Osdet Mvouba, the new face of youth in the president's party

The First Secretary of the Force Montante Congolaise, Vadim Osdet Mvouba. ©FMC

SENEGAL Politics 06/05/2021

Senegalese intel agency probes foreign influence on March riots

Demonstration of support for Ousmane Sonko, 3 March 2021 in Dakar. ©Zohra Bensemra/Reuters

GUINEA Politics Finance 05/05/2021

Under IMF's watchful eye, Conakry cracks down on money-laundering

At the end of April, Prime Minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana had to give the International Monetary Fund proof of progress in the fight against financial crime. The National Assembly passed a law on the subject the same month. [...]

CENTRAL AFRICA Politics 05/05/2021

After Abidjan, Mikati family's ACC prospects in Brazzaville and Douala

Arabian Construction Co (ACC), having lost its position as the leading construction contractor in the Emirates and Saudi Arabia, has been redeploying in Africa since last year and recently sent a delegation to Cameroon and later to Brazzaville. [...]

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ANGOLA Politics 04/05/2021

Lourenço tainted by anti-corruption probe into top adviser dos Anjos

João Lourenço's anti-corruption record has taken another blow after one of his closest advisers, Isaac dos Anjos, was charged with misusing funds from the state-owned Sonango oil firm to build luxury property. [...]

GABON Politics 04/05/2021

Traditional Ndjobi order gains new master after death of "Papa Andjoua"

On 18 April, Fidel Andjoua Ondimba, the brother of Gabon's former president Omar Bongo and Ndjobi grand master, died and was buried shortly after in Franceville. His son, a presidential advisor, has replaced him at the head of this traditional ritual widely practised in Haut-Ogooué, the Bongo family stronghold. [...]

CHAD Politics 03/05/2021

After Déby's death, Paris checks in with the opposition

With the Transitional Military Council (CMT) in the crosshairs since Idriss Déby's death, the Elysée Palace and French foreign ministry have been holding meeting after meeting with the opposition. [...]

Ali Bongo's former chief of staff Brice Laccruche Alihanga.

GABON Politics 29/04/2021

Brice Laccruche to be charged with birth certificate forgery

The trial of Brice Laccruche Alihanga is due to resume today. Ali Bongo's former chief of staff has been detained for more than a year during his prosecution for embezzlement. Now forgery has been added to his charge sheet. [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 28/04/2021

Sylvère Koyo appointed interim masonic lodge grand master after Bakayoko's death

Without waiting for the end of the traditional three-month mourning period, the brothers of the Grande Loge de Cote d'Ivoire (GLCI) have appointed an interim successor to recently deceased prime minister Hamed Bakayoko. He will remain in the position until the lodge's next general assembly. [...]

Congolese president Denis Sassou Nguesso.

CONGO Politics 28/04/2021

Reality catches up with Sassou Nguesso's campaign promises

Ahead of his re-election President Denis Sassou Nguesso made a raft of campaign promises to launch major works. Some are already withering on the vine. [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 22/04/2021

Alassane Ouattara ready for reconciliation after forming his new government

The president of Ivory Coast is preparing to release dozens of political prisoners faithful to Gbagbo, Bédié and Soro as discussions about Laurent Gbagbo's return to Ivory Coast progress. [...]

SENEGAL Politics Defence 22/04/2021

Police invest in TAG armoured vehicles in wake of riots

In response to the tense situation, the interior minister Antoine Félix Abdoulaye Diome placed an urgent order for a consignment of several dozen BATT armoured personnel carriers (APC) from the American-Emirati supplier The Armored Group (TAG). [...]

Chad's president Idriss Déby, who died on 20 April.

CHAD Politics 21/04/2021

The many questions raised by Idriss Déby's death

President Idriss Déby's sudden death on 20 April has sent shockwaves throughout Chad and further afield, prompting France to raise its operation Bharkane to maximum alert. Officially, the leader was killed in combat fighting the Fact rebels, but many questions remain on the circumstances leading to his death. [...]

Two Mi-24 helicopter gunships belonging to the Chadian army have been overhauled in the Tbilaviamsheni factory in Tbilisi.

CHAD Politics Defence 20/04/2021

Chad tries to rush gunships back home from Tbilissi to counter rebel advance

As armed insurgents, mobilised since this month's presidential poll, threaten to capture Tebesti in northern Chad, the government is desperate to get back helicopters that have been overhauled in eastern Europe. [...]

Marcel Niat Njifenji, Speaker of the Senate with Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, President of the National Assembly (left to right), on March 6, 2018 in Yaounde.

CAMEROON Politics 20/04/2021

Paul Biya keeps fellow octogenarians in power whatever the cost

The 88-year-old Cameroonian president will not let his fellow executive members retire out of fear that their retirements could raise unspoken questions about his own position as head of state. [...]

The Beninese opposition leader Reckya Madougou.

WEST AFRICA Politics 19/04/2021

Reckya Madougou rallies legal, political and business elite for her release

Despite his reelection, Patrice Talon's main opponent remains behind bars on vague suspicions of "financing terrorism". But he will have to reckon with Madougou's powerful supporters among whom are two of the region's sitting presidents as well as oligarch Mahamadou Bonkoungou and lawyer Antoine Vey, a former associate of French justice minister Dupond-Moretti. [...]

Kalev Mutond, former Administrator General of the National Intelligence Agency (ANR) of the DRC.

Spotlight DRC Politics 16/04/2021

Paranoia runs high in Kinshasa with masterspy Mutond on the run

Just hours before the police planned to arrest him, Kabila's former chief spy vanished into thin air, leaving both sides of the political divide in a state of nervous tension. [...]

Senegalese president Macky Sall speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Dakar, Senegal, 09 April 2021.

Inner circles SENEGAL Politics 16/04/2021

Task force seeks to redeem Macky Sall's image in wake of Sonko affair

Macky Sall pays great attention to his public image, which is handled by a small group of advisers based at the president's office. They are currently trying to restore his reputation after it took a heavy knock in the violent demonstrations of March. [...]

Burkinabe opposition leader Eddie Komboïgo.

BURKINA FASO Politics 14/04/2021

Opposition leader Eddie Komboïgo goes on Paris charm offensive

Burkina Faso's opposition leader Eddie Komboïgo travelled to Paris in early April to meet with French officials, journalists, and parliamentarians. [...]

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Traditional Ndjobi order gains new master after death of "Papa Andjoua"

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Brice Laccruche to be charged with birth certificate forgery

Sylvère Koyo appointed interim masonic lodge grand master after Bakayoko's death

Reality catches up with Sassou Nguesso's campaign promises

Alassane Ouattara ready for reconciliation after forming his new government

Police invest in TAG armoured vehicles in wake of riots

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Chad tries to rush gunships back home from Tbilissi to counter rebel advance

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