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West Africa

Africa, United States
Grant Harris, the man of the summit

One man has been centre stage of preparations for the United States-Africa summit in Washington on August 5-6 - White [...]

Subscribers only Politics 29.01.2014

Benin
Patrice Talon affair claims new victim

Heads continue to roll in the ongoing Patrice Talon affair. The latest to be shown the door is prosecutor Justin Gbènamèto.

Subscribers only Politics 29.01.2014

Niger
Military miffed at Mahamadou

There is no love lost between Mahamadou Issoufou and Niger’s military top brass, who are irked at being left out of crucial decision-making on defence.

Subscribers only Politics 29.01.2014

Senegal
Hollande bats for Vicat

François Hollande is playing close attention to the legal wrangle between French cement company Vicat and Nigeria's Dangote in Sénégal. He has his reasons.

Subscribers only Politics 29.01.2014

Burkina Faso
Thomas Sankara in memoriam

The high court in Ouagadougou will rule on March 5 [...]

Subscribers only Politics 29.01.2014

Ivory Coast
Ouattara invites favoured neighbours

President Alassane Ouattara issued special invitations to Nigeria, Burkina Faso, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 29.01.2014

Ivory Coast
Ouattara shadow mediates for CEMAC

Abidjan and Malabo have become even tighter friends since Alassane [...]

Subscribers only Politics 29.01.2014

Ivory Coast
I&P goes to Abidjan

The private equity firm Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P) is planning [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.01.2014

Ivory Coast
Angola seeks to cement friendship with Ivory Coast

Rafael Savimbi, the secretary-general of UNITA and son of former [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.01.2014

Benin
Societe Generale victim of Talon fallout in Benin

African banks are not the only ones to have been [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.01.2014

Ivory Coast
Air Côte d'Ivoire facing cash crunch in 2014

Abdoulaye Coulibaly, the chairman of the board of Air Côte [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.01.2014

Burkina Faso
Ubifrance draws full house for Burkina Faso mining

UBIFRANCE, the French international business agency, had a full house [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.01.2014

Togo
ALBERT KOSSIVI NAKU (CNPT)

Albert Kossivi Naku, who was reelected for another five years [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.01.2014

Nigeria
Three winners in Chevron sell-off

Still stalled by an injunction by Brittania U, the sale of Chevron's stakes has been completed with three companies rather than just one.