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Libya
Italians and Greeks clash over Libya

According to our sources in Brussels, Greece is already claiming the right to command the EUNAVFOR Med maritime operation off [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.02.2020

Tunisia
Kaïs Saïed attacks Baccouche's TV project

Kaïs Saïed has instructed foreign minister Sabri Bachtobji to cut short Taïeb Baccouche's mandate as head of the Arab Maghreb [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.02.2020

Spotlight | Gabon
'Scorpion' becomes a French affair

In the space of less than three months, the major anti-corruption drive that has claimed the scalps of Ali Bongo's former chief of staff and his allies has become a bone of diplomatic contention between Libreville and Paris. The West [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

Africa
African football chief's future hangs in balance

Subject to FIFA oversight since August 2019, the Confederation of African Football president, Ahmad Ahmad, is implicated by an audit confirming certain irregularities already identified by French investigators.

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

Ivory Coast
Guillaume Soro strives to remain a player in exile

Prevented from returning to Abidjan, the former speaker of the Ivorian parliament Guillaume Soro is pulling out all the stops to maintain the momentum of his campaign as the Ivorian government makes discreet overtures towards him.

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

DRC
Pompeo seeks to build bridges between Kabila and Tshisekedi

The US administration has asked Angola's leader João Lourenço if he could play the mediator between the ex-Congolese president and his successor.

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

Africa, United Kingdom
Tony Blair negotiates with Libreville and Nouakchott

Already advising six African governments, the former British PM's public-private outfit is now looking to set up shop in Gabon and Mauritania.

Free access Politics 19.02.2020

Ivory Coast
Brussels and Paris at odds with Abidjan over electoral list

Until now, the European Union ambassador in Ivory Coast, Jobst von Kirchmann, had managed to smooth out all the difficulties [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

Senegal
Samuel Sarr makes yet another comeback

One of the former president Abdoulaye Wade's most loyal allies became a fixture in the entourage of the first lady [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

Africa, France
Hiatus in ill-gotten gains investigations

Although the investigation into properties purchased in France by several African presidential families (the so-called ‘ill-gotten gains' affair) is continuing [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

DRC
Freddy Kita Bukusu, minister of a thousand networks

The deputy minister for economic planning, Freddy Kita Bukusu, has been chosen to represent President Félix Tshisekedi in Malabo on [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

Ivory Coast
Stéphane Konan leaves Abidjan far behind

Stéphane Konan, the influential advisor of the all-powerful Ivorian minister of defence, Hamed Bakayoko, has decided to keep a low [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

Congo
Guillaume Bakouété elected president of Pointe-Noire Bar

The new president of the Bar of Pointe-Noire, 52-year-old Guillaume Bakouété, is due to take up his functions on 24 [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

Ivory Coast
Sidi Tiémoko Touré heir apparent to Gomis

Ivory Coast's ambassador to France since 2013, the diplomat Charles Providence Gomis will be stepping down from his post in [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

Angola, France
Macron in Luanda and Pretoria in May

Emmanuel Macron will make a state visit to Angola and [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

Mauritania
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani's international marathon

After visiting Paris, London, Brazzaville and Abu Dhabi, the Mauritanian [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

France, Sierra Leone
Paris to open diplomatic outpost in Freetown

With a rapprochement with Sierra Leone in the pipeline, France [...]

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy 19.02.2020

Benin
Police concerned about desertions within its ranks

Worried by a fresh rise in desertions and suicides within [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

Gabon
Explosive atmosphere reigns in president's office

In recent days, tensions have been palpable between Ali Bongo's [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

Chad
Berlin keeps up pressure on Idriss Déby

At their nadir in the summer of last year, relations [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

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