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CHAD Defence 20/03/2023

French defence minister Lecornu plans trip to N'Djamena

French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu is preparing to make an official visit to Chad as part of plans announced by President Emmanuel Macron to completely reorganise France's military presence in Africa.

SpotlightCENTRAL AFRICA Energy Mining Commodity traders 17/03/2023

Pressure mounts on CEMAC to relax foreign exchange rules

The main foreign investors in the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa are alarmed by the regional body's foreign exchange regulations, considering them to be too tough. But despite intense lobbying, a relaxation of the rules looks unlikely, the central bank having set itself ambitious objectives for foreign currency reserves.

Abbas Mahamat Tolli, governor of the Bank of Central African States, in Paris in 2018.

ALGERIA Defence 17/03/2023

DGSE chief meets with Algerian counterpart in Germany

In the utmost secrecy, the heads of France's DGSE and Algeria's DGDSE met in Berlin in mid-February, scarcely a week after an earlier meeting was cancelled amid the Amira Bouraoui affair.

SpotlightALGERIA Politics 15/03/2023

Abdelmadjid Tebboune prepares major reshuffle

The head of state is carrying out a series of consultations as he prepares a major reshuffle in which several government heavyweights look likely to lose their posts. Behind the scenes, Tebboune is making no attempt to hide his dissatisfaction with a number of ministers, including foreign minister Ramtane Lamamra.

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune.

ALGERIA Diplomacy 15/03/2023

Planned Franco-Algerian historical commission yet to take shape

Six months after the announcement of its creation, tensions between France and Algeria are delaying the establishment of a bilateral body that is supposed to resolve a row over the countries' shared past. The decrees appointing the commission's French and Algerian experts have still not been published.

French President Emmanuel Macron (center left) and French historian Benjamin Stora (center right) with Algeria's Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra (left) during a visit in Algiers on the 25th of August 2022.

The New Guard AFRICA Politics Business 15/03/2023

GUINEA - Saikou Amadou Diallo, helming the fight against graft
MOROCCO - Ali Seddiki, investment champion
TANZANIA - Charles Makakala, Francophile incubator
KENYA - Justina Wamae, sights set on the middle classes

Palace Intrigues AFRICA Business Diplomacy 14/03/2023

GABON - Biya skips summit, Sassou snubs group photo
GABON - Congolese delegation plays cat and mouse with Gabonese opposition
SENEGAL - French rappers Gims and Maes pick luxury concierge service
EGYPT - Belgium's Queen Mathilde acts as ambassador for tourism

In Focus DRC RWANDA Defence Diplomacy 13/03/2023

As fight against M23 continues, Kigali and Kinshasa wage war of intelligence

Faced with Kinshasa's accusations of support for the M23 by Kigali, Rwandan intelligence has been documenting collusion between the Congolese army and the FDLR rebel militias for several months. In this battle of narratives, each side is sharing their classified information with Western capitals.

Intelligence reports are also used as weapons of war in the M23 crisis between Rwanda and the DRC.

ALGERIA Politics 13/03/2023

Tebboune-Chengriha rift behind Chouiter's sacking

The dismissal of military intelligence chief General Abdelaziz Nouiouet Chouiter is one of the tell-tale signs that not everything is going smoothly between the head of the Algerian army and President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, as is also the case with the Foreign Affairs Minister.

Algerian military Chief of Staff Said Chengriha in Paris, 24 January 2023.

SpotlightANGOLA Politics Diplomacy 09/03/2023

UNITA tends to its international networks from Paris to Abidjan

Adalberto Costa Junior, the chairman of Angola's leading opposition party, has been an increasingly frequent visitor to Western capitals of late and has also been looking to extend his influence in Africa with the help of a small group of loyalists.

Adalberto Costa Junior, the leader of Angola's main opposition party Unita.

AFRICA Diplomacy 09/03/2023

Lula gears up for first major African tour

This summer the Brazilian president is likely to visit South Africa, Nigeria and Sao Tomé and Congo, where Sassou Nguesso is keen to have him participate in his forest summit.

Brazil's President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva in South Africa in 2010.

FRANCE IRAQ TUNISIA Politics Diplomacy 09/03/2023

Iraq and Tunisia neck and neck for top job at Institut du Monde Arabe

Iraqi poet Chawki Abdelamir and Tunisian philosopher Rachida Triki are vying to run the Arab cultural institution in Paris. The imminent appointment of a new president should help speed up the decision process that has been unfolding behind closed doors.

Palace Intrigues AFRICA Politics Diplomacy 07/03/2023

GABON - OIF shuns One Forest Summit
EGYPT - Ministers Sameh Shoukry and Catherine Colonna fail to meet in Geneva
MOROCCO - Abderrahim Atmoun, ambassador in Warsaw and hotel owner in Paris
SOUTH AFRICA - Former Eskom boss's accusations rattle ANC
FRANCE/AFRICA - VIP turnout for French lawyer Pierre Haik's funeral

BURKINA FASO Defence Politics 06/03/2023

Burkinabe military split over junta leader Traoré's new directions

In the wake of the brutal end to Burkina Faso's military cooperation deal with Paris, Burkinabe officers appear increasingly divided as regards junta leader Ibrahim Traoré. Traoré for his part is wary of some of them and keeps certain figures well away from the decision-making process.

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso's new president, in Ouagadougou, 15 October 2022.

MADAGASCAR Diplomacy 06/03/2023

Scattered Islands and Apollo 21 on French foreign minister's Madagascar agenda

Catherine Colonna is scheduled to make a lightning visit next month to Antananarivo, where, as well as signing aid agreements, she is due to discuss two thorny subjects with President Andry Rajoelina.

French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, in Brazil, 8 February 2023.

SpotlightCONGO Politics Business 03/03/2023

Sassou reshuffles his legal task force

Unhappy with how several lawsuits and arbitration proceedings in Paris are going, Brazzaville is bringing in French specialists to boost the task force in charge of defending the interests of the president and the Congolese state.

Congolese president Denis Sassou Nguesso.

ZAMBIA Finance Diplomacy 03/03/2023

Hichilema set to meet Macron in Paris

The French government is currently planning for an official visit to Paris by the Zambian head of state, Hakainde Hichilema.

SpotlightSENEGAL Politics Diplomacy 02/03/2023

Paris and Washington fret over Macky Sall's third-term ambitions

With less than a year to go to the presidential election, the prospect of Macky Sall running for a third term is increasingly worrying France and the United States. Emmanuel Macron recently raised the question directly with his Senegalese opposite number but the subject is also causing unease in ECOWAS member states.

Macky Sall on electoral campaign, the 22th of February 2019, in Dakar.

TUNISIA Politics Diplomacy 02/03/2023

PM rues closure of French atomic energy office in Tunis

La représentation régionale du Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA) en Tunisie plie bagage. Sa dissolution a été actée par le CEA le 1er février.

SpotlightDRC Defence Diplomacy 01/03/2023

M23 manoeuvres to destabilise Kinshasa

While clashes continue around the city of Goma, the M23 is implementing its strategy of expansion from a position of strength. The rebel movement is in control of parts of North Kivu province and and aims to consolidate its proto-state.

M23 fighters at Rumangabo camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on 6 January 2023.

Algerian secret services in survival mode in North Mali

As fight against M23 continues, Kigali and Kinshasa wage war of intelligence

Africa in the Russia-Ukraine war

The Sahel threatened by a jihadist tornado

Sisi's African offensive

Emmanuel Macron

French defence minister Lecornu plans trip to N'Djamena

Pressure mounts on CEMAC to relax foreign exchange rules

DGSE chief meets with Algerian counterpart in Germany

Abdelmadjid Tebboune prepares major reshuffle

Planned Franco-Algerian historical commission yet to take shape

GUINEA - Saikou Amadou Diallo, helming the fight against graftMOROCCO - Ali Seddiki, investment championTANZANIA - Charles Makakala, Francophile incubator KENYA - Justina Wamae, sights set on the middle classes

GUINEA - Saikou Amadou Diallo, helming the fight against graft

MOROCCO - Ali Seddiki, investment champion

TANZANIA - Charles Makakala, Francophile incubator

KENYA - Justina Wamae, sights set on the middle classes

GABON - Biya skips summit, Sassou snubs group photoGABON - Congolese delegation plays cat and mouse with Gabonese oppositionSENEGAL - French rappers Gims and Maes pick luxury concierge service EGYPT - Belgium's Queen Mathilde acts as ambassador for tourism

GABON - Biya skips summit, Sassou snubs group photo

GABON - Congolese delegation plays cat and mouse with Gabonese opposition

SENEGAL - French rappers Gims and Maes pick luxury concierge service

EGYPT - Belgium's Queen Mathilde acts as ambassador for tourism

As fight against M23 continues, Kigali and Kinshasa wage war of intelligence

Tebboune-Chengriha rift behind Chouiter's sacking

UNITA tends to its international networks from Paris to Abidjan

Lula gears up for first major African tour

Iraq and Tunisia neck and neck for top job at Institut du Monde Arabe

GABON - OIF shuns One Forest Summit

EGYPT - Ministers Sameh Shoukry and Catherine Colonna fail to meet in Geneva

MOROCCO - Abderrahim Atmoun, ambassador in Warsaw and hotel owner in Paris

SOUTH AFRICA - Former Eskom boss's accusations rattle ANC

FRANCE/AFRICA - VIP turnout for French lawyer Pierre Haik's funeral

Burkinabe military split over junta leader Traoré's new directions

Scattered Islands and Apollo 21 on French foreign minister's Madagascar agenda

Sassou reshuffles his legal task force

Hichilema set to meet Macron in Paris

Paris and Washington fret over Macky Sall's third-term ambitions

PM rues closure of French atomic energy office in Tunis

M23 manoeuvres to destabilise Kinshasa

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GUINEA - Saikou Amadou Diallo, helming the fight against graft
MOROCCO - Ali Seddiki, investment champion
TANZANIA - Charles Makakala, Francophile incubator
KENYA - Justina Wamae, sights set on the middle classes

GABON - Biya skips summit, Sassou snubs group photo
GABON - Congolese delegation plays cat and mouse with Gabonese opposition
SENEGAL - French rappers Gims and Maes pick luxury concierge service
EGYPT - Belgium's Queen Mathilde acts as ambassador for tourism