Africa
Five African judges in the running for seat on UN administrative tribunal

Morocco
UN's Western Sahara leadership team continues to shrink

Sidelined by direct negotiations between the parties to the dispute under the auspices of Washington, the UN mission tasked with the issue of Western Sahara is seeing its senior staff leave without being replaced.

Morocco
UN dismisses its Western Sahara representative in Tindouf refugee camps

Palestinian diplomat Yusef Jedian has just received a letter from his employer, the United Nations, informing him of the impending end of his MINURSO mandate.

Palace Intrigues
Alassane Ouattara, Patrice Talon, Samia Suluhu Hassan

Intrigues big and small: every Thursday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

Ivory CoastAlassane Ouattara to be sworn in on 8 December

BeninFormer Patrice Talon loyalist, Aurélien Agbénonci, distanced from Cotonou

TanzaniaDuma Boko's stony silence around Samia Suluhu Hassan's inauguration

Central African Republic
MINUSCA's mandate renewal impacted by US reservations

Amid talks on the mission's renewal by the UN Security Council in the Central African Republic, the Council's permanent members, particularly France, China and Russia, are uneasy about the US's position, which has not yet been clarified.