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Mali
MAG Aerospace to supply spy planes to UN peacekeepers in Mali

The United Nations has chosen MAG Aerospace to supply surveillance aircraft to its peacekeepers in Mali (Minusma) to help them in their engagement with jihadist groups.

Subscribers only Defence 12.04.2021

France, Togo
Jihadist threat set to dominate talks when Gnassingbé meets Macron in Paris

Countering Islamist insurgency in the Sahel is set to top the agenda when Faure Gnassingbé is received by Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée Palace on 9 April. During his stay in Paris, the Togolese president is also scheduled to visit the Senate and the employers' group Medef.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy 07.04.2021

Togo
Gnassingbé to pay official visit to France in the spring

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé is due to pay an an official visit to France for several days in the spring.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 08.02.2021

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé received at the Elysée Palace by his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte in September 2019.

Burkina Faso
With French Air Force planes delayed, CAE Aviation still front and centre of Operation Barkhane

Spy plane operator CAE Aviation's involvement in Operation Barkhane is being extended despite its services supposedly having been made redundant by the delivery of two new aircraft.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 07.12.2020

In Focus | Mali
How regime insiders Karim Keïta and Moussa Diawara slipped through the putschists' net

Despite being Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta's leading collaborators, former intelligence chief Moussa Diawara and the deposed head of state's oldest son, Karim Keïta, have been able to slip quietly into exile. Africa Intelligence reveals their activities before and after IBK's fall from power and detail the ambiguous roles they played in the weeks leading up to the coup.

Subscribers only Politics 26.10.2020

The population cheering soldiers in Bamako after the coup of 18 August 18 2020.

Spotlight | Mali
CAE, SNC, Mag, DEA, Leonardo: the battle for MINUSMA spy plane contract is on

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali has, after years of hesitancy, launched a tender for the provision of surveillance aircraft it sorely needs. A host of international providers with strong credentials will make for a tight race.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 29.09.2020

For the time being, Minusma has to make do with two Heron drones (above) and Hermes 900.

Africa, Algeria
Amarante reorganises African subsidiaries and bids for growth in airport security

Amarante International's new Africa director, Georges Uriot, is to temporarily take charge of the group's key Algerian subsidiary, while at the same time leading the group's drive to expand in African airport security.

Subscribers only Business 22.09.2020

Georges Uriot is the new director for Africa of Amarante International.

Spotlight | Africa
Snubbed by Sudan, Pompeo and Netanyahu scour Africa in search of support

Despite months of lobbying, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has failed to convince the president of Sudan's Sovereign Council to recognise Israel or support the Middle East peace plan concocted by Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 01.09.2020

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, 24 August 2020.

Mali, United Nations
IBK's spy-in-chief faces likely UN sanctions

With the intelligence chief General Moussa Diawara in the firing line of the UN panel of experts, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta could be forced to dispense with one of his key allies.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 18.08.2020

France, West Africa
Operation Barkhane commanders' second life

Some of the generals who led France's largest overseas military operation are leaving the Army without their hoped-for promotion while others have been better in leveraging their experience in the Sahel.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 17.06.2020

General Pascal Facon, current commander of Operation Barkhane.

Spotlight | Mali
Employers' group head tussles with IBK over Clément Dembélé's detention

Mali's top boss Mamadou Sinsy Coulibaly is going all out to pressure President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to free anti-corruption campaigner Clément Dembélé.

Subscribers only Politics 02.06.2020

Mali's top boss Mamadou Sinsy Coulibaly.

Libya
Intelligence: Paris deploys CAE Aviation to keep watch over Turkish arms supplies to Libya

France has turned to the Franco-Luxembourg firm to monitor Turkish vessels suspected of supplying arms to the west of Libya without waiting for the launch of Europe's Irini mission to enforce the embargo.

Subscribers only Business 04.05.2020

Spotlight | Africa, France
French top African diplomatic post to change hands

As Rémi Maréchaux prepares to step down as head of the French foreign affairs ministry's Africa and Indian Ocean section, he is set to be replaced by fellow diplomat Christophe Bigot.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 21.04.2020

Rémy Maréchaux, head of the French foreign ministry's Africa and Indian Ocean section.

Chad
Idriss Déby poses as war leader against Boko Haram

The meticulously staged photograph posted on the Twitter account of [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.04.2020

Spotlight | Libya
Geos and Vesper take over EUBAM's protection from GardaWorld

The French security company Geos is returning to Libya with a major contract. In late February, the firm, led by former Directorate General for External Security (DGSE) chief and army general Didier Bolelli, won a one-year renewable contract to protect [.

Subscribers only Business 05.03.2020

In Focus | Chad
RJM Aviation reigns supreme in the sky over Chad

In less than 10 years, private air transport company RJM Aviation, headed by Thierry Miallier, has become a key operator in N'Djamena. It has transported Idriss Déby, Operation Barkhane soldiers, ExxonMobil and even George Clooney.

Subscribers only Business 03.02.2020

RJM Aviation, headed by Thierry Miallier, is a key operator in N'Djamena

Central Africa, West Africa
Paris manoeuvres to persuade Trump to limit his disengagement

For the last month, Washington has been playing a game of bluff with its allies in the Sahel by dangling the threat of withdrawal as it did a year ago.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy 22.01.2020

Ivory Coast
The secret history of the Guillaume Soro recording

Navigating through the cloud of PR coming out of the two camps, the West Africa Newsletter has managed to reconstruct when, how and why the recording that led to an arrest warrant against Guillaume Soro was made.

Subscribers only Politics 08.01.2020

Spotlight | DRC
Félix Tshisekedi pivots westwards on intelligence and defence

In contrast to his predecessor Joseph Kabila, who cut military and intelligence ties with the West, Félix Tshisekedi has reopened channels of cooperation on security with Paris, Brussels and Washington to soften the impact of the imminent withdrawal of the [.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 20.11.2019

DRC President Félix Tshisekedi at Paris Peace Forum, November 12, 2019.

Senegal
Thales installs long-range radar at unfinished bases

The French electronics company Thales has begun to install two [...]

Subscribers only Defence, Business 06.11.2019

DRC
Washington deal: intricacies behind Tshisekedi's poker move

Namibia
Namibia oil utopia hangs on TotalEnergies' final investment decision

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Mali
MAG Aerospace to supply spy planes to UN peacekeepers in Mali

France, Togo
Jihadist threat set to dominate talks when Gnassingbé meets Macron in Paris

Togo
Gnassingbé to pay official visit to France in the spring

Burkina Faso
With French Air Force planes delayed, CAE Aviation still front and centre of Operation Barkhane

In Focus | Mali
How regime insiders Karim Keïta and Moussa Diawara slipped through the putschists' net

Spotlight | Mali
CAE, SNC, Mag, DEA, Leonardo: the battle for MINUSMA spy plane contract is on

Africa, Algeria
Amarante reorganises African subsidiaries and bids for growth in airport security

Spotlight | Africa
Snubbed by Sudan, Pompeo and Netanyahu scour Africa in search of support

Mali, United Nations
IBK's spy-in-chief faces likely UN sanctions

France, West Africa
Operation Barkhane commanders' second life

Spotlight | Mali
Employers' group head tussles with IBK over Clément Dembélé's detention

Libya
Intelligence: Paris deploys CAE Aviation to keep watch over Turkish arms supplies to Libya

Spotlight | Africa, France
French top African diplomatic post to change hands

Chad
Idriss Déby poses as war leader against Boko Haram

Spotlight | Libya
Geos and Vesper take over EUBAM's protection from GardaWorld

In Focus | Chad
RJM Aviation reigns supreme in the sky over Chad

Central Africa, West Africa
Paris manoeuvres to persuade Trump to limit his disengagement

Ivory Coast
The secret history of the Guillaume Soro recording

Spotlight | DRC
Félix Tshisekedi pivots westwards on intelligence and defence

Senegal
Thales installs long-range radar at unfinished bases

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DRC Washington deal: intricacies behind Tshisekedi's poker move

Namibia Namibia oil utopia hangs on TotalEnergies' final investment decision

The Sahel threatened by a jihadist tornado

Cabo Delgado: a gas Eldorado and security nightmare

West African cocoa cartel battles with the traders

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Mali MAG Aerospace to supply spy planes to UN peacekeepers in Mali

France, Togo Jihadist threat set to dominate talks when Gnassingbé meets Macron in Paris

Togo Gnassingbé to pay official visit to France in the spring

Burkina Faso With French Air Force planes delayed, CAE Aviation still front and centre of Operation Barkhane

In Focus | Mali How regime insiders Karim Keïta and Moussa Diawara slipped through the putschists' net

Spotlight | Mali CAE, SNC, Mag, DEA, Leonardo: the battle for MINUSMA spy plane contract is on

Africa, Algeria Amarante reorganises African subsidiaries and bids for growth in airport security

Spotlight | Africa Snubbed by Sudan, Pompeo and Netanyahu scour Africa in search of support

Mali, United Nations IBK's spy-in-chief faces likely UN sanctions

France, West Africa Operation Barkhane commanders' second life

Spotlight | Mali Employers' group head tussles with IBK over Clément Dembélé's detention

Libya Intelligence: Paris deploys CAE Aviation to keep watch over Turkish arms supplies to Libya

Spotlight | Africa, France French top African diplomatic post to change hands

Chad Idriss Déby poses as war leader against Boko Haram

Spotlight | Libya Geos and Vesper take over EUBAM's protection from GardaWorld

In Focus | Chad RJM Aviation reigns supreme in the sky over Chad

Central Africa, West Africa Paris manoeuvres to persuade Trump to limit his disengagement

Ivory Coast The secret history of the Guillaume Soro recording

Spotlight | DRC Félix Tshisekedi pivots westwards on intelligence and defence

Senegal Thales installs long-range radar at unfinished bases

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DRC
Washington deal: intricacies behind Tshisekedi's poker move

Namibia
Namibia oil utopia hangs on TotalEnergies' final investment decision

Mali
MAG Aerospace to supply spy planes to UN peacekeepers in Mali

France, Togo
Jihadist threat set to dominate talks when Gnassingbé meets Macron in Paris

Togo
Gnassingbé to pay official visit to France in the spring

Burkina Faso
With French Air Force planes delayed, CAE Aviation still front and centre of Operation Barkhane

In Focus | Mali
How regime insiders Karim Keïta and Moussa Diawara slipped through the putschists' net

Spotlight | Mali
CAE, SNC, Mag, DEA, Leonardo: the battle for MINUSMA spy plane contract is on

Africa, Algeria
Amarante reorganises African subsidiaries and bids for growth in airport security

Spotlight | Africa
Snubbed by Sudan, Pompeo and Netanyahu scour Africa in search of support

Mali, United Nations
IBK's spy-in-chief faces likely UN sanctions

France, West Africa
Operation Barkhane commanders' second life

Spotlight | Mali
Employers' group head tussles with IBK over Clément Dembélé's detention

Libya
Intelligence: Paris deploys CAE Aviation to keep watch over Turkish arms supplies to Libya

Spotlight | Africa, France
French top African diplomatic post to change hands

Chad
Idriss Déby poses as war leader against Boko Haram

Spotlight | Libya
Geos and Vesper take over EUBAM's protection from GardaWorld

In Focus | Chad
RJM Aviation reigns supreme in the sky over Chad

Central Africa, West Africa
Paris manoeuvres to persuade Trump to limit his disengagement

Ivory Coast
The secret history of the Guillaume Soro recording

Spotlight | DRC
Félix Tshisekedi pivots westwards on intelligence and defence

Senegal
Thales installs long-range radar at unfinished bases