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Algeria
Ahmed Gaid Salah takes over secret services

Ahmed Gaid Salah struck a double blow in having Said Bouteflika, Mohamed Mediene (alias "Toufik") and Athmane Tartag (aka "Bechir") [...]

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 09.05.2019

In Focus | Burkina Faso, Central Africa, West Africa
Mahamadou Bonkoungou flies high in construction thanks to presidential aviation business

Liza Transport International's Falcon 7X in Ebomaf Force One video featuring Chocki. — Liza Transport International's Falcon 7X in Ebomaf Force One video featuring Chocki. © Screenshot

Subscribers only Politics 06.05.2019

Spotlight | Libya
Mercury comes to Fayez Sarraj's aid in Washington

Fayez Sarraj, who is under siege in Tripoli from a Khalifa Haftar who is still on the attack despite heavy losses, is looking for support in… Washington. To help him resist the eastern general's offensive, the head of the government [...]

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 02.05.2019

Tunisia
Khemaies Jhinaoui riles the United Nations

Khemaies Jhinaoui's foreign ministry and United Nations agencies in Tunis are at loggerheads! According to our information, several agencies, including [...]

Subscribers only Politics 02.05.2019

Libya
The Misratis engage directly with Khalifa Haftar

Under the authority of Misrati interior and defence minister Fathi Bashagha, the Misrati militias have finally taken up position in [...]

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 02.05.2019

Algeria
Ahmed Gaid Salah plays for time and power

Ahmed Gaid Salah is playing for time as he tries to keep control of the post-Bouteflika transition process. As we [...]

Subscribers only Politics 02.05.2019

Africa
2020 Africa-France summit: a glam and glitter affair

Publicis, Havas and Richard Attias are competing to host a showpiece summit in Bordeaux.

Subscribers only Politics 30.04.2019

Cameroon
Paul Biya's diplomatic inertia

Though surrounded by career diplomats, the president has been slow to appoint ambassadors to represent his country abroad.

Subscribers only Politics 30.04.2019

DRC
How Felix Tshisekedi's UDPS sought to undermine its own leader

A year prior to the presidential election of 2018, several figures in the opposition party tried to negotiate a power-sharing arrangement with Joseph Kabila. An exclusive.

Subscribers only Politics 30.04.2019

Gabon
Mamba loses it venom

Unlike a similar initiative in Cameroon, the anti-corruption drive launched in Gabon in 2017 is struggling to live up to its promises.

Subscribers only Politics 30.04.2019

DRC
Denise Tshisekedi networks on her husband's behalf

Denise Nyakeru Tshisekedi, who for a long time worked as a nurse in Belgium, has no intention of simply being [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.04.2019

Gabon
Brice Laccruche Alihanga wins over media

Ali Bongo's chief of staff, Brice Laccruche Alihanga, has been consolidating his relationship with the media in order to hone [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.04.2019

Document | Mali
Boubou Cisse faced with tricky task of forming a government

Instructed by Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (‘IBK) to form an ‘inclusive' government, on 23 April the new Malian prime minister Boubou [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.04.2019

Mali, Russia
Bamako's appeal to Moscow

On 18 April, the Russian ambassador to Mali, Alexey Doulian, attended a meeting in the Malian capital Bamako of the [...]

Free access Defence, Politics 30.04.2019

Ivory Coast
Thierry Tanoh still weighing his options

The former minister for oil, energy and the development of renewable energies, Thierry Tanoh, has still not succumbed to the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.04.2019

Niger
Ibrahim Yacouba in Paris to drum up support

The candidate of the Mouvement patriotique nigerien-Kiishin Kassa (MPN) for the 2021 presidential election in Niger, Ibrahim Yacouba, who served [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.04.2019

Burkina Faso
Luc Marius Ibriga, Ouagadougou's ‘Mr Clean'

A figure who played a central role in the opposition to Blaise Compaore's regime and the head of the Autorite [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.04.2019

Cameroon
Joseph Dion Ngute struggles to assert himself

Despite being the prime minister, Joseph Dion Ngute has very limited room for manoeuvre when it comes to appointing his [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.04.2019

Ivory Coast
Henri Konan Bedie forced to pack his bags

The tensions between Alassane Ouattara and Henri Konan Bedie (‘HKB') [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.04.2019

Africa, Turkey
DEIK, Ankara's economic weapon on the continent

The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is regularly turning to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.04.2019

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