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Algeria
Lamamra’s half-hearted push for Haddad

According to our sources, foreign minister Ramtane Lamamra has arranged a series of meetings between businessman Ali Haddad and ambassadors [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.04.2015

Tunisia
Ennahda still turning on the charm

Even though it now finds itself in opposition, Ennahda has no intention of breaking off its historical ties with the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.04.2015

Spotlight | Morocco
A disastrous spring season for Mohamed Hassad

Once king Mohammed VI’s "favorite wali" (regional representative), interior minister Mohamed Hassad (MC 1082) now finds himself on the defensive on both the security and social fronts. And in the background lies the hard-driving figure of Abdellatif Hammouchi, boss of [...]

Subscribers only Politics 02.04.2015

Tunisia
New start to Paris-Tunis ties

Franco-Tunisian diplomatic relations could shortly change, and perhaps even improve at the end of a visit to Paris by president [...]

Subscribers only Politics 02.04.2015

Libya
Misrata seeks to tighten grip on west

The dismissal of prime minister Omar Al-Hassi is going to strengthen Misrata’s hand with the "rebel" government in Tripoli. His [...]

Subscribers only Politics 02.04.2015

Morocco
Pargneaux and pals on Western Sahara trip

A looming U.N. Security Council vote on Misnurso's mandate in Western Sahara later this month is prompting Morocco's "friends" to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 02.04.2015

Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast
Blaise Compaore marks time in Abidjan

Living in exile in Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso's former president divides his time between sporting activities, bi-lateral meetings and heartfelt reflection on his country's politics, West Africa Newsletter can reveal.

Subscribers only Politics 01.04.2015

Ivory Coast
Gbagbo receives visitors at The Hague

Candidates for Ivory Coast’s presidential elections are among many visitors to Laurent Gbagbo, who remains influential in Ivorian politics despite his imprisonment in The Hague on war crimes charges.

Subscribers only Politics 01.04.2015

Congo
Sassou hatches plan to neutralise Kolelas

Brazzaville is plotting to undermine the Pool political base of Parfait Kolelas, the head of the MCDDI party, before the presidential elections in 2016.

Subscribers only Politics 01.04.2015

Chad
Hinda Deby Itno, an influential first lady

Chad’s first lady has the ear of her husband, and her friends and relatives are all over politics and business in Chad.

Subscribers only Politics 01.04.2015

Congo
Charles Bowao, Sassou’s former eminence grise switches sides

Charles Zacharie Bowao, who served as defence minister from 2009 to 2012 and is a member of the executive committee [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.04.2015

Ivory Coast
Abou Drahamane Sangare says his prayers

Abou Drahamane Sangare the interim head of Laurent Gbagbo’s Front Populaire Ivorien (FPI) party, was spotted praying on Palm Sunday [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.04.2015

Burkina Faso
Tertius Zongo gets VIP treatment from Ouattara

After the shock of the uprising in his country last October, Burkina Faso’s former prime minister Tertius Zongo recently landed [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.04.2015

Ivory Coast
Namizeta Sangare receives Legion of Honour

General Jean-Louis Georgelin, the grand chancellor of France’s Legion of Honour, awarded the prestigious French medal to a number of [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.04.2015

Ivory Coast
Ouattara finally honours memory of Yace

President Alassane Ouattara waited until the end of his five-year [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.04.2015

Gabon, Ivory Coast
Soro could mediate between feuding Bongo family

Pascaline Bongo is expected to meet with President Alassane Ouattara [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.04.2015

France, Gabon
Dumont-Beghi tries to get Bongo’s B777 airborne

French lawyer Claude Dumont-Beghi, a discreet member of the Franco-African [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.04.2015

Burkina Faso, France
Jean Guion, a long way from Ouagadougou

Jean Guion, a French advisor to Blaise Compaore, continues to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.04.2015

Gabon
Ali Bongo buffeted by internal row

Gabon’s President Ali Bongo is caught up in an internal [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.04.2015

Ivory Coast
Abidjan wants to be prepared for Islamist threat

Hamed Bakayoko, Ivory Coast’s interior and security minister, received a [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.04.2015

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