Alassane Ouattara

Palace Intrigues
Alassane Ouattara, Patrice Talon and Faustin-Archange Touadera

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

Ivory Coast IMF wraps up Ouattara's 2023 budget

Benin Ex-foreign minister Agbenonci's costly ambitions

CAR Opposition leader Dologuele's discreet campaign

Ivory Coast
Ouattara moves to end Eranove's drinking water monopoly

On the Ivorian president's orders, Prime Minister Patrick Achi is taking steps to open up the drinking water market, currently dominated by the French company's subsidiary SODECI.

Palace Intrigues
Alassane Ouattara and Macky Sall, Anatole Collinet Makosso, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan

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

Senegal Ouattara and Sall's unlikely double get-together

Congo PM Makosso joins the Academy of Overseas Sciences

Sudan al-Burhan's discreet lobbying at Arab League summit

Ivory Coast
Alassane Ouattara to chair council of ministers on 24 May

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara will chair an extraordinary council of ministers in Abidjan on 24 May.

Africa
Denis Sassou Nguesso, Alassane Ouattara, Félix Tshisekedi and Azali Assoumani

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

Chad, Sao Tome and Principe
Delicate week of diplomacy in store for ECCAS

Tchad et Sao Tomé-et-Principe... Le programme est chargé en ce mois de mai pour les émissaires de la Communauté économique des Etats de l'Afrique centrale (CEEAC) qui s'apprêtent à vivre une intense semaine diplomatique.

Palace Intrigues
Alassane Ouattara, Paul Biya, Kemi Seba and Nathalie Yamb

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

Ivory Coast Ouattara to holiday in French Mougins residence

Cameroon Biya abandons knee surgery

France Army scours Kemi Seba and Nathalie Yamb's social networks

Ivory Coast
Ouattara dispatches his deputy to Charles III coronation

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara will not be at the coronation of the UK's King Charles III on 6 May in London. Ivorian Vice President Tiémoko Meyliet Koné will instead attend as Ouattara's representative.

Chad, Libya, Sudan
Washington and Doha increasingly concerned about threat posed by armed groups in Libya

Numerous militia fighters from Darfur and Chad are present in Libya. For the time being, they have refrained from intervening in neighbouring Sudan but, if the hostilities there persist, one of the warring parties could be tempted to call them in.

Africa
Emmanuel Macron, Andry Rajoelina, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Mohamed Médiène

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

The New Guard
Angola, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Morocco

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

Angola Nelito Ekuikui, UNITA's new youth leader

Cameroon Stéphane Tiki, sales rep for French-speaking companies

Ivory Coast Danielle Benoist, Ivorian VP Tiémoko Meyliet Koné's spin doctor

Morocco Loubna Tricha, queen of professional integration