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Libya
BCE, Ghannouchi and Algiers snub Kobler

The Libyan negotiating round due to take place in Tunis on Sunday, probably at The Residence hotel in Gammarth, will [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.01.2017

Tunisia
Tunisia’s friends want more military aid

Tunisia’s supporters in the American House of Representatives are working to increase the already substantial military aid Tunisia gets from [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.01.2017

Algeria
Algerian customs blast EU agreement

The European Union is having to tread carefully in its relations with Algeria. On January 16, the European Council ratified [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.01.2017

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Gon Coulibaly hits the ground running

Within a day of being appointed prime minister on Jan. 10, former chief of staff in the office of the president Amadou Gon Coulibaly formed a government, filling its ranks with his associates.Loyalists - Of the 30 members of the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2017

Gabon
Bongo subjects Accrombessi's machine to a vigorous purge

Keen to restore calm to Libreville, the head of state is busy unravelling the network woven by his former chief of staff.

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2017

Congo
Why Sassou is getting heavy with the radical opposition

The arrest of Andre Okombi Salissa caps the president’s determination to neutralise his staunchest opponents.

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2017

Ivory Coast
Guillaume Soro now free to travel within France

Under investigation in France over allegations made in 2012 by Michel Gbagbo, former president Laurent Gbagbo’s son, of "torture, degrading [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2017

Guinea
Alpha Conde mends fences with Algeria

A candidate to replace Chadian President Idriss Deby as head of the African Union, Alpha Conde made a discreet charm [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2017

Congo, France
Mapingou prepares his lawsuit against Brazzaville

The defamation case brought by opposition politician Marc Mapingou Mitoumbi will be heard on March 15 at the Tribunal de [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2017

Gabon
The influence of Herve Patrick Opiangah over the president is growing

An advisor to Ali Bongo, Herve Patrick Opiangah, who was imprisoned in 2007 for "acts of banditry" during the reign [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2017

Cameroon
Marafa Hamidou Yaya sticks to her guns

Jailed in September 2012 for 25 years - a sentence upheld by Cameroon’s Supreme Court last year - former minister [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2017

Chad
A colder shoulder for the first lady

Hinda Deby Itno, who recently obtained French citizenship and has been keeping a low profile over the past few months, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2017

Congo
Journalist held for alleged subversion

The journalist Ghys Fortune Dombe Bemba, the head of the Talassa newspaper, was arrested at 5 am on Jan. 11 [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2017

Ivory Coast, Mali
Ado displays prudence

Alassane Ouattara, worried by the Jan. 6 mutiny in several [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2017

France, Mali
Not quite local delicacies

What President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita of Mali laid on for [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2017

Chad
Deby’s discreet trip to Paris

After visiting Brussels Idriss Deby travelled to Paris where from [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2017

Mauritania
Who has the ear of Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz?

Former journalist Abdelvetah Ould Mohamed, who was appointed communications adviser [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2017

Eritrea, Uganda
Did Ugandan agence kill an Eritrean counterpart in Kampala ?

According to Ugandan security sources, the body found in Kampala [...]

Subscribers only Politics 13.01.2017

Kenya
Luhyas forbid Musalia Mudavadi from quitting presidential race

Former deputy prime minister Musalia Mudavadi is under pressure from [...]

Subscribers only Politics 13.01.2017

Djibouti, Somalia
Djibouti clan split over Somali parliament appointments

The appointment to the Somali federal parliament of three representatives [...]

Subscribers only Politics 13.01.2017

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