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Algeria
Bouteflika to seek fifth term?

The forced retirement of Département du Renseignment et de la Sécurité (DRS) chief Mohamed "Toufik" Médiène has delighted the presidential [...]

Subscribers only Politics 08.10.2015

Tunisia
MPs dragged into Marzouk-HCE battle

As they battle openly for control of Nidaa Tounes, Hafedh Caid Essebsi ("HCE") son of President Beji Caid Essebsi, and [...]

Subscribers only Politics 08.10.2015

Libya, United States
Trial to start soon over Benghazi arms

The American government and arms dealer Marc Turi, head of the Turi Defence Group, are busily preparing themselves to face [...]

Subscribers only Politics 08.10.2015

Spotlight | Libya
Khalifa Haftar no longer "non grata" in Europe

After having recently been under threat of international sanctions (MC 1165), Khalifa Haftar has begun a discreet return to favour in Europe. According to different sources, the head of the "legitimate" eastern army has been invited to represent Libya at [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.10.2015

Morocco
The fall of the House of Derham

The brothers, Hassan and Slimane Derham, who were for a long time key figures on the Sahrawi political scene, are [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.10.2015

Tunisia
BCE seeks kamikaze for central bank job

President Beji Caid Essebsi (BCE) and his advisers are collecting the CVs of potential replacements for Central Bank of Tunisia [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.10.2015

Tunisia | Offices of Global Strategy Advisory, Tunis
Jomaâ prepares presidential bid

Former transition government head Mehdi Jomaâ is preparing to run for the presidency in the 2019 elections. According to our [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.10.2015

Ivory Coast
Kablan Duncan-Ahoussou vie for PDCI leadership

The current and former prime ministers of Ivory Coast will be rivals for the leadership of the PDCI after the presidential elections.

Subscribers only Politics 30.09.2015

Rwanda, Togo
Faure’s finances in Rwandan hands

He has long been fascinated by Rwandan leader Paul Kagame. But Togo’s Faure Gnassingbe has now gone further, placing a team of powerful Rwandan aides in charge of Togo’s finances.

Subscribers only Politics 30.09.2015

Cameroon
Biya’s grey-haired regime

Like the president himself, the heads of many of Cameroon’s leading institutions are well past retirement age.

Free access Politics 30.09.2015

Congo
Opposition threatens to torpedo Sassou’s referendum

Congo’s opposition is solidly united to stop Denis Sassou Nguesso changing the constitution so that he can run for office again.

Subscribers only Politics 30.09.2015

Gabon
Christian Magnagna enters litigation fray

After being kept on as minister for the budget and public accounts in the government reshuffle in Gabon in September [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.09.2015

Congo
Jean-Claude Gakosso gives advice to foreign diplomats

Three days after Denis Sassou-Nguesso’s announcement of a referendum on changing the Republic of Congo’s constitution, on September 25 diplomats [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.09.2015

Burkina Faso
Laurent Poda strikes fear into putschists

Laurent Poda, the prosecutor-general of the Ouagadougou Appeals Court, came into his own after the coup d’etat led by Gilbert [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.09.2015

Ivory Coast
Zakaria Kone, Diendere’s liaison officer in Abidjan

Lieutenant Colonel Zakaria Kone, the second-in-command of the Akouedo armoured battalion in Abidjan, exploited his relationship with General Gilbert Diendere, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.09.2015

Niger
Foreign ministry censors Hama in Paris

The French foreign ministry had a word with the Institut [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.09.2015

Ivory Coast
Ex-UNOCI Choi Young-jin revisits 2011 crisis

It has been a long time coming out but "La [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.09.2015

France, Gabon
Atallah fights Santullo’s corner

Italian businessman Guido Santullo, head of the construction firm Sericom, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.09.2015

France, Ivory Coast
Georges Serre vs Bollore

Vincent Bollore does not only have friends in diplomatic circles. [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.09.2015

France, Mauritania
Peer de Jong heads AEM

Former French marine colonel Peer de Jong was appointed chairman [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.09.2015

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