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Libya
Can Abdeljalil hold on until June?

The National Transition Council is going through a bad patch. It is feeling increasingly isolated and a flurry of sit-ins [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.01.2012

Spotlight | Morocco
Fihri's mark still on foreign ministry

Will the lone Islamic figure to be handed a key portfolio in the new Moroccan government, foreign minister Saad Eddine El Othmani, be given free rein by the royal palace?No sooner had El Othmani been named than he sought to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.01.2012

Morocco
Sijilmass-Akherbach Duel for UPM job

King Mohammed VI’s circle in Rabat is hard at work trying to choose a successor to the secretary-general of the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.01.2012

Algeria, Mali
Tuaregs take up the fight

The security situation took a sudden turn for the worse in Mali this week while, across the border in Algeria, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.01.2012

Egypt, Libya
Cairo lecturing the Libyans again

During a trip to Tripoli on Jan. 16, the chief of Egypt's Supreme Armed Forces Council, marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantaoui, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.01.2012

Spotlight | Gabon
Bongo fuels oil sector power struggle

Preferring to expound on Gabon’s ‘green’ industries, President Ali Bongo Ondimba rarely speaks in public about oil, despite the fact that even though it is diminishing, the country’s output of crude oil remains Gabon’s primary source of revenue. The last [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Mali
AQIM's unpaid ransom

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) had promised to pay €15,000 to the individuals who kidnapped Frenchmen Philippe Verdon [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Burkina Faso
Soro welcomes Burkinabe business

Business in Ivory Coast is booming for Burkinabe entrepreneurs, thanks to the ties between Guillaume Soro and Blaise Compaore.

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Niger
French business chiefs visit Niamey

Undeterred by insecurity in Niger, some thirty-odd French businesspeople recently visited Niamey in a trade mission organised by the French employers' organisation MEDEF.

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Senegal
Paris prepares for the worst

France is concerned that things could get ugly after Senegal’s presidential election in February and its soldiers are on alert.

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Congo
Commisimpex keeps on fighting

Bank accounts held by the Republic of Congo’s Paris embassy have been frozen, unfrozen and frozen again. The embassy’s financial troubles are far from over.

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Cameroon
Patton Boggs goes on charm offensive

The U.S. lobbying firm Patton Boggs has signed a new contract to represent the Cameroonian government in 2012 for $300,000 fee.

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Gabon
Ali Bongo woos the UPG

Fresh from his party’s landslide victory in Gabon’s parliamentary elections in December, Ali Bongo is keen to form an alliance with the late Pierre Mamboundou’s UPG.

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Ivory Coast
Ouattara gets new Parisian adviser

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara has a new advisor, Frenchman Thierry [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Ethiopia, Gabon
Ping looking good

On the eve of the African Union summit taking place [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Congo
Happy families

Denis Sassou-Nguesso's children did not attend a ceremony in Brazzaville's [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.01.2012

Kenya
Odinga will not have this advisor

Hassan Omar Hassan will not be on Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s campaign team after he leaves the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.

Subscribers only Politics 13.01.2012

Somalia, United States
Farole gets a lobbyist in the USA

The President of Puntland has hired a new American lobbyist on security and counter-piracy issues.

Subscribers only Politics 13.01.2012

Ethiopia, Somalia, Somaliland
Silanyo under Meles’s influence

President Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud has appointed a young officer trained in an Ethiopian military academy to head the intelligence services.

Subscribers only Politics 13.01.2012

Madagascar
Andry Rajoelina versus Omer Beriziky

The disagreements between President Andry Rajoelina and Prime Minister Omer Beriziky continue to accumulate.

Subscribers only Politics 13.01.2012

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