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Libya
Belhadj wants to negotiate with Salame

Former Tripoli warlord Abdelhakim Belhadj seems to be homesick. Belhadj, who is also a former military governor of the Libyan [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.10.2017

Morocco
Mustapha Laabid pays low-profile visit

Mustapha Laabid, the new chairman of the France-Morocco friendship group at the French National Assembly, wasted no time visiting the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.10.2017

Libya
Mohamed Al Senussi tests royal option

The current blockage in the Libyan crisis exit talks organized in Tunis by UN envoy Ghassan Salame has given Libyan [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.10.2017

Spotlight | Togo
Mediation, PR and repression: Faure Gnassingbe's three-trick pony

In the midst of one of the deepest crises of his regime, the Togolese president is playing good cop, bad cop. To date, the various attempts to mediate have fallen flat due to reservations over those overseeing the mediation process. [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.10.2017

Cameroon
How Biya presides from Geneva, the country's eleventh region

A regular VIP guest at the Intercontinental Hotel, the president has turned this city into the antechamber of his regime.

Subscribers only Politics 25.10.2017

Gabon
Ali Bongo's strategy to legitimise his second term

The president hopes the legislative elections will finally put the turmoil of the presidential election behind him.

Subscribers only Politics 25.10.2017

Congo
The SNPC overhaul creates rifts among the ‘clans'

The tense situation within several public companies, including the state oil company, is fuelling vicious in-fighting within the regime.

Subscribers only Politics 25.10.2017

Central African Republic
Antonio Guterres prompts a flurry of activity

The visit of the UN Secretary General coincides with new military victories on the ground.

Subscribers only Politics 25.10.2017

Cameroon, United States
Washington concerned at the crisis in the anglophone regions

On 17 October, a group of some twenty United States Members of Congress wrote to the ambassador Nikki Haley, the [...]

Free access Politics 25.10.2017

Ivory Coast
Guillaume Soro sticks implacably to his political agenda

After two long months spent in Europe, Guillaume Soro returned to Abidjan on 22 October. The speaker of the Ivorian [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.10.2017

Gabon
Eloi Nzondo ready to do battle with Barro Chambrier

Eloi Nzondo, who has been a political adviser to President Ali Bongo since late September, recently joined the ruling Parti [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.10.2017

Burkina Faso
The revenge of Mahamoudou Bonkoungou

After being authorised by the BCEAO to operate in the banking sector, Mahamadou Bonkoungou has taken control of the Banque [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.10.2017

Ivory Coast
Charles Kader Goore remains persona non grata

Charles Kader Goore, who has been living abroad since the post-electoral crisis of 2011 (WAN 728), was refused permission by [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.10.2017

African Union, Togo
Government repression scuppers Conde's mediation efforts

The current president of the African Union (AU), Alpha Conde, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.10.2017

Ivory Coast
No more wiretapping for Bakayoko

Though he still enjoys the full confidence of Alassane Ouattara, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.10.2017

Ivory Coast
Ailing Mi-24s grounded

The two Russian Mi-24 helicopters acquired earlier this year by [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.10.2017

Ivory Coast
JWI on a security mission!

The American lobbying company Jefferson Waterman International (JWI), founded by [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.10.2017

Africa
A 100% female lodge!

The solemn inauguration ceremony of the Grande Loge feminine du [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.10.2017

Kenya
Two of Kenyatta's men on hand to observe the NASA flights

The Jubilee Party of the incumbent president Uhuru Kenyatta can [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.10.2017

Kenya, Tanzania
The Kenyan police are fearful of a resurgence in terrorism

The arrest by the Kenyan Anti-terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) in [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.10.2017

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