Ouattara

Palace Intrigues
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Macky Sall, Paul Kagame, Alassane Ouattara, Emmanuel Macron, Abdelhamid Dabaiba, Mahamat Idriss Déby

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

Gabon General Oligui Nguema has Bongo family fortune assessed

Senegal Sall's hush-hush trip to Paris

Rwanda Kagame taken by surprise as new UK government scraps asylum plan

Ivory Coast Ouattara calls Macron following dissolution of French parliament

Libya Déby and Dabaiba's men come to blows in Tripoli

Palace Intrigues
Macky Sall, Alassane Ouattara, Évariste Ndayishimiye

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

Senegal Sall due back in Dakar to attend son's wedding

Ivory Coast Ouattara monitors French legislative elections closely

BurundiGradual rapprochement between Pierre Buyoya's family and Ndayishimiye

West Africa
Akufo-Addo backs Tinubu's reappointment as ECOWAS chair

The Ghanaian president threw his support behind his Nigerian counterpart at the recent summit of the regional organisation.

Ivory Coast
French bank Société Générale speeds up its Ivorian exit

MD Slawomir Krupa hopes the sale of its Ivorian subsidiary can be completed before the presidential election of October 2025.

Ivory Coast
Cotton king Koné Daouda Soukpafolo set to acquire Versus Bank

The Ivorian businessman who heads up EKDS is finalising his bid to buy the state-owned Versus Bank.

West Africa
Heads of state set to shun ECOWAS summit

Several leaders of French-speaking countries are not expected in Abuja on 7 July.

Palace Intrigues
Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Alassane Ouattara, Patrice Talon, Faustin-Archange Touadéra

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

Congo Sassou puts finishing touches on Congo Basin summit preparations

Ivory Coast Ouattara thinks twice about naming bridge after Gbagbo

Benin President's son Lionel Talon seeks to bring NBA to Cotonou

CAR Pro-Russian sports minister invited to Paris Olympics

The New Guard
Ivory Coast, West Africa, Madagascar

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

Ivory Coast Téné Birahima Ouattara's rising cybersecurity star, Cédric Anoma

West Africa Izar Hyacinthe, the woman behind the first-ever Afretail forum

Madagascar Nasser Goulamhoussen, the influential tour manager bringing French rap stars to Africa

Ivory Coast
SNEDAI audited in relation to passport contract

The finance ministry has entrusted the sister of the president's chief of staff with a probe into Adama Bictogo's company.

Ivory Coast
Ouattara puts cashew nut regulator under presidency's control

Ouattara has deprived Adama Coulibaly, chair of the CCA, of most of his powers. From now on, Yves Brahima Koné, who heads the Conseil Café Cacao, will oversee the country's second-largest agricultural sector.

Palace Intrigues
Emmanuel Macron, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Gérald Darmanin

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

Africa Macron invites African leaders to 80th anniversary of Provence landings

Algeria Tebboune keeps Algerian Cup finalists waiting

Congo Sassou attends Ramaphosa's inauguration with supersized delegation

Egypt French interior minister's Cairo visit foiled by snap elections

Ivory Coast
Ouattara tasks Hamed Cissé with developing banking sector strategy

The employers' federation boss will be looking at ways of boosting the sector.

Ivory Coast
Cocoa: CCC chairman Yves Brahima Koné extends season for traders

Ivory Coast's cocoa and coffee regulator, the Conseil Café Cacao, is poised to further extend the purchasing contracts of bean exporters who were unable to fulfil them during the season running between 1 October to 30 March.