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DRC
Coronavirus pandemic thwarts Kinshasa's plans for Banana port

The office of President Felix Tshisekedi, who wants to open [...]

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Politics 23.03.2020

Spotlight | Morocco
Paris offers €2.2 bn for high-speed line, Beijing €1.4 bn

Negotiations on the contract to build the future Kénitra-Marrakesh-Agadir high-speed rail line are forging ahead. France, which has been negotiating for several months with transport minister Abdelkader Amara and finance minister Mohamed Benchaâboun, is optimistic about the chances of the [...]

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Politics 19.03.2020

Morocco
Benchaâboun heads coronavirus fund

Finance minister Mohamed Benchaâboun is to take charge of the special fund for management of the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) response [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.03.2020

Libya
Haftar pushes his advantage in Ramla

General Khalifa Haftar's forces are still active in the Ramla area, west of Tripoli, where they made limited but symbolic [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.03.2020

Libya
Austria and Hungary scupper Eunavfor

European Union (EU) high representative for external affairs and security policy Josep Borrell's proposal to revive the Eunavfor Med naval [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.03.2020

Libya
Defence attaché Benoit de la Ruelle set to leave Libyan embassy

Colonel Benoit de la Ruelle, defence attaché at the French [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.03.2020

Tunisia
Moez Labidi to be Elyès Fakhfakh's financial guide

Moez Labidi, who was appointed an adviser to prime minister [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.03.2020

Algeria
Bouteflika era stalwart Bouchema pops up at industry ministry

New industry and mines minister Ferhat Aït Ali Braham, who [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.03.2020

Africa
Ahmad Ahmad manoeuvres to hold on to top African football job

The CAF president has not renewed the six-month agreement which in effect placed his organisation under the administration of FIFA and is angling to have his own contract renewed next year.

Subscribers only Politics 18.03.2020

Africa, France
Who will lead Quai Branly as it repatriates African artworks?

In the front line of Emmanuel Macron's initiative to repatriate African art, Quai Branly finds itself without a president.

Subscribers only Politics 18.03.2020

Senegal
Macky Sall rocked by crisis in Bissau

The standoff between the self-proclaimed government of Umaro Sissoco Embaló, installed in Bissau thanks to the army, and that of [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.03.2020

Africa, France
Sant'Egidio at the Elysée

Andrea Riccardi, the founder of the lay Catholic Sant'Egidio community and former minister of cooperation under Mario Monti, was granted [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.03.2020

Burkina Faso
Second term for Kaboré looking increasingly uncertain

With just over ten months to go until the presidential election in November 2020 and the incumbent, Roch Marc Christian [...]

Free access Politics 18.03.2020

Angola
Bento Dos Santos ‘Kangamba', a general on borrowed time

A very prominent figure under José Eduardo dos Santos, General Bento dos Santos, aka ‘Kangamba', has been under judicial supervision [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.03.2020

DRC
Fortunat Biselele, Tshisekedi's very special advisor

Fortunat Biselele, the discreet but powerful advisor to Félix Tshisekedi, played a key role in the DRC's rapprochement with Israel [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.03.2020

Cameroon
Cavaye Yeguié Djibril makes it back to parliament just in time

On 14 March, the 80-year-old speaker of the Cameroonian parliament, Cavaye Yeguié Djibril , took one of the very last [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.03.2020

Congo
Ludovic Ngatsé takes over as negotiator with IMF

Faced with the possibility that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may delay for a second time its deliberations on the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.03.2020

Ivory Coast
Governor of Abidjan district swindled for good

Last month, the district of Abidjan was forced to abandon [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.03.2020

Mali
Bamako stations its aircraft in Gao

The Malian air force commanded by Colonel Major Souleymane Doucouré [...]

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 18.03.2020

Africa
Coronavirus puts Africa-France summit in doubt

Although a dozen African leaders, including Ali Bongo, George Weah [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.03.2020

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