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Libya
Haftar's march on the south rebuffed

Khalifa Haftar's wish to strengthen his presence in Fezzan (Libya's southern region, MC 1306), has run into serious difficulties. According [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.11.2018

Spotlight | Gabon
How the state will make do without its leader

After fainting and being hospitalised on 24 October during a visit to Saudi Arabia, the Gabonese president Ali Bongo is likely to withdraw from state affairs for a number of weeks. Mechanisms to ensure the continuity of government business have [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2018

DRC, Israel, United States
Kinshasa's curious lobbying contracts

With the presidential election looming, the government is turning to US lobbyists for help.

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2018

Central African Republic
Paris pushes back against the Russians

Having underestimated Moscow's offensive, France seeks to regain the initiative in the country.

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2018

Congo
Treasury bodies resistant to IMF reform

Moves to improve the efficiency of these bodies are being blocked due to their strategic importance for the regime.

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2018

Document | France, Rwanda
Kagame, Macron's go-to man

The French president hopes to involve his Rwandan counterpart in overseeing a number of dossiers. Analysis.

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2018

Gabon
Lucie Milebou-Aubusson, the putative president

The name of 61-year-old Lucie Milebou-Aubusson, who has been the president of the Senate since 2015 and is the country's [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2018

Senegal
Karim Wade, a high-risk return to Dakar?

The candidate of the Parti democratique senegalais (PDS) in the presidential election of 2019 in Senegal, Karim Wade, may return [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2018

Togo
Agbeyome Kodjo gives his party a makeover

On 20 October, the former prime minister of Gnassingbe Eyadema from 2000 to 2002, the 64-year-old Gabriel Agbeyome Kodjo, renamed [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2018

Togo
Ali Esso Tchakpele, Faure's new security chief

Less than satisfied with the performance of Colonel Koulemaga Kassawa as head of the Agence nationale de renseignement (ANR, the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2018

Ivory Coast
Kuwaiti funding still pending

The Ivorian authorities have still not received the FCFA 300 [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2018

Ivory Coast
Gon Coulibaly awaits cheque in post from Paris

The Ivorian prime minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who is also [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2018

France, Niger
Paris set to train paras

A training contingent of operation Barkhane which is already present [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2018

Cameroon
Chantal Biya's friends fall out over football

Preparations for the Africa Cup of Nations that Cameroon will [...]

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2018

Burundi, Tanzania
Refugees a collateral damage for Pierre Nkurunziza

For the last year, about 500 were departing by bus a week from the camps of Nduta and Mtendeli to [...]

Free access Politics 26.10.2018

Djibouti
RPP ever more isolated within the UMP…

FRUD, a member of the Union de la majorite presidentielle [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.10.2018

Ethiopia
How Abiy Ahmed Ali is balancing the Somali clans

Although he has not ended the domination of Somali National [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.10.2018

Tanzania
Magufuli in a hurry over expatriate jobs

Although consultations organised by the Ministry of Labour on this [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.10.2018

Uganda
How Qatar is wielding its influence in Kampala

The director of Qatar State Security (QSS), General Ghanim bin [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.10.2018

Uganda
Ex-soldiers turn on the regime

Christopher Aine, the former Uganda Peoples' Defence Force (UPDF) soldier [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.10.2018

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