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Madagascar
Mohammed VI goes on a pilgrimage to Antsirabe

King Mohammed VI of Morocco will take advantage of his [...]

Subscribers only Politics 28.10.2016

Uganda
Museveni tries to calm the Bugandis

The descendants of the former Prime Minister of the Kingdom [...]

Subscribers only Politics 28.10.2016

Algeria
Boualem is Bouteflika’s new cyber spy

Very discreetly, Abdelaziz Bouteflika has appointed Boualem Boualem as head of the national body for preventing and combating offences linked [...]

Subscribers only Politics 27.10.2016

Libya
Tulty brings Miitig contacts in the US

Ashraf Tulty, the new spokesman for Presidential Council number two, Ahmed Miitig from Misrata, will give Miitig access to his [...]

Subscribers only Politics 27.10.2016

Libya
Haftar and Misrata to make peace?

The secret negotiations between the authorities in eastern Libya and the city-state of Misrata, the existence of which was revealed [...]

Subscribers only Politics 27.10.2016

Spotlight | Morocco
"M6" appoints seven African missionaries

Mohammed VI appointed 65 ambassadors on October 13, thus creating for himself an opportunity to review and reinforce his representation network in Africa, his favourite diplomatic stamping ground.As Maghreb Confidential announced on September 29, two veteran diplomats have been dispatched [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.10.2016

Libya | Hotel Rixos, Tripoli
"Brothers" threatened by split

Former prime minister Khalifa Al Ghwell may have failed to topple the government of Fayez Sarraj but the coup attempt, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.10.2016

Tunisia | Tunisian Embassy, Paris
Chaker and Aidi still in the race

President Beji Caid Essebsi (BCE) is taking his time to appoint Tunisia’s new ambassador in France. He should have taken [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.10.2016

Libya | Home Office, London
Nabeel Sheikh defends Libya's cadets

Libyan ambassador in London Mahmud Nacua is making efforts to have repatriated five Libyan cadets currently imprisoned in the United [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.10.2016

Africa
Who will be the next head of the AU Commission?

Better a minister than a former head of state. Here’s why:

Subscribers only Politics 19.10.2016

Gabon
Bongo promotes Accrombessi

Far from being thrown of the president’s inner court, Maixent Accrombessi has been brought even closer to the centre of power.

Subscribers only Politics 19.10.2016

Ivory Coast
Ouattara’s sweeteners:Why MPs okayed the new constitution

Keen to see his pet draft of a new basic law speedily adopted in the national assembly, the head of state took care to preempt any resistance.

Subscribers only Politics 19.10.2016

Congo
Kiki, JDO and the mayor: Rival camps flex their muscles ahead of polls

In the run-up to next year’s legislative elections, competing political clans try to steal a march for dominance within the president’s entourage.

Subscribers only Politics 19.10.2016

Cameroon
Chantal Biya, first lady across the board

Chantal Biya is set to be the focus of a "scientific" symposium wordily entitled "Fundamental and political rights of solidarity [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.10.2016

Africa, Guinea
Francois Lounceny Fall to take up UN envoy post

Guinean former prime minister Francois Lounceny Fall has finally decided to accept his nomination as the new UN Special Representative [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.10.2016

Benin
Jose-Dominique Loko elected interim grand master

Jose-Dominique Loko, who since September has been chairing a transitional council tasked with finding a successor to Vincent Kouassi Nicoue [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.10.2016

Ivory Coast
Ouegnin pays the price for her outspokenness

Yasmina Ouegnin, 37, who represents the Abidjan district of Cocody in parliament, has been denied a one million CFA franc [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.10.2016

Gabon
Bongo’s French lawyers line up for looming libel trials

In the coming months, Pierre Pean, a French journalist, faces [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.10.2016

Burkina Faso
Mid-air scare for Kabore

President Roch Marc Christian Kabore of Burkina Faso escaped unharmed [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.10.2016

France, Niger
Niamey boosts its fire-power against Boko Haram

The three Gazelle helicopters the French army gave to Niger [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.10.2016

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