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Libya
Sarraj outflanked by his Islamists

The military offensive launched on June 18 by the Benghazi Defence Brigades against General Khalifa Haftar in the Ajdabiya region [...]

Subscribers only Politics 23.06.2016

Tunisia
BCE awaits Ghannouchi for reshuffle

President Beji Caid Essebsi ("BCE") is to meet Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi as soon as the latter returns from Paris [...]

Subscribers only Politics 23.06.2016

Spotlight | Benin
Patrice Talon grabs control of economy

Benin’s new President Patrice Talon pledged in earnest throughout his electoral campaign that he would not mix politics with business. However now that he is comfortably installed in the presidential palace, Talon appears to be keen to reinstate all of [...]

Subscribers only Politics 22.06.2016

Congo
Sassou, Mokoko and the insurrection plotters

A leading opposition figure has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in a 2007 insurrection plot allegedly hatched by people outside the Republic of Congo.

Subscribers only Politics 22.06.2016

Ivory Coast
Lobbyists play key role in Ivorian deal-making

Foreign companies keen to land lucrative contracts with the Ivorian government use an array of local lobbyists to help them land deals.

Free access Politics 22.06.2016

Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou beefs up defences against terrorism

The attack on the Splendid Hotel has prompted Burkina Faso's government to overhaul its security architecture.

Subscribers only Politics 22.06.2016

Mali
Missing ammo highlights airport security shortcomings

The recent disappearance of munitions belonging to the German army triggered alarm in a country that has repeatedly been targeted [...]

Subscribers only Politics 22.06.2016

Congo
Thomas Bakala Mayinda, Sassou Nguesso’s zealous police chief

Thomas Bakala Mayinda, 59, who has headed general intelligence at the Congolese national police force for the past two-and-a-half years, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 22.06.2016

Ivory Coast
Amadou Gon Coulibaly goes to China

President Alassane Ouattara is sending Amadou Gon Coulibaly, his right-hand man and secretary-general of the president's office, rather than Prime [...]

Subscribers only Politics 22.06.2016

Chad
Ousmane Bahar Mahamat Itno, Deby’s eyes and ears in military

General Ousmane Bahar Mahamat Itno, the nephew of President Idriss Deby Itno, was promoted to commander of Chad’s military academies, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 22.06.2016

Gabon
Casimir Oye Mba campaigns in Paris?

Casimir Oye Mba, who is running for president against incumbent Ali Bongo in Gabon on August 27 as the candidate [...]

Subscribers only Politics 22.06.2016

Ivory Coast
Ouattara promotes Jean-Baptiste Soro

The president has promoted Jean-Baptiste Soro, one of his main [...]

Subscribers only Politics 22.06.2016

Cameroon, France
Thibault tipped for Yaounde

With his posting as French ambassador in Ouagadougou ( WAN [...]

Subscribers only Politics 22.06.2016

Congo
Adada approved by Paris

The French government has agreed to Rodolphe Adada replacing Henri [...]

Subscribers only Politics 22.06.2016

Ivory Coast
Bedie buries hatchet with Therese Houphouet-Boigny

Therese Houphouet-Boigny left her home in Bossey, in the French [...]

Subscribers only Politics 22.06.2016

France, Mali
Menaouine to head MINUSMA

Brigadier-General Daniel Menaouine is poised to succeed General Herve Gomart [...]

Subscribers only Politics 22.06.2016

Cameroon
Ousman Mey takes on part-timers

Cameroonian finance minister Alamine Ousmane Mey has recently called the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 22.06.2016

Africa
Panafrican epassport launched

The African Union will unveil the pan-African epassport at its [...]

Subscribers only Politics 22.06.2016

Somalia, Somaliland
Move by Hassan Sheikh Mohamud unites Somaliland tribes against him

Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has flouted a decision by the National Consultative Leadership Forum. In a bid to tighten [...]

Subscribers only Politics 17.06.2016

Ethiopia
Police will soon be sanctioned for its repression

Parliament approved a motion on 8 June that obliges the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 17.06.2016

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