Palace Intrigues
Nicolas Sarkozy, Teodorin Obiang, François Beya and Thomas Boni Yayi

Gabon
Freed from creditors, Libreville's Paris mansion set for facelift

Purchased at great expense by the Gabonese government in 2010, the mansion in central Paris has for a long time been something of a closed-off fortress, besieged by creditors. But Libreville is now preparing to build a cultural institute in one of its wings.

Palace Intrigues
Patrice Talon, Nicolas Sarkozy, Félix Tshisekedi, Diego Aponte, 'Teodorin' Obiang

Benin
Patrice Talon's secret Paris tête-à-tête with Nicolas Sarkozy

DRC
MSC boss Diego Aponte's hush-hush dinner with Félix Tshisekedi

Equatorial Guinea
Vice President 'Teodorin' Obiang is a fan of Singapore

West Africa
The Grand Orient de France to hold talks on the Sahel

Congo
Ex-PM Jean-Pierre Raffarin shepherds French business leaders to Brazzaville

The Fondation Prospective et Innovation, run by the former French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, is to dispatch a business delegation to Brazzaville from 27 to 29 March.

In Focus | DRC
Tshisekedi's investment adviser Jean-Claude Kabongo does business on both sides of the Congo River

As well as being the DRC's ambassador to the business world, Felix Tshisekedi's influential special adviser is careful to take care of his own oil product trading interests. In this area, he relies on the close links he has forged with members of the Sassou Nguesso family.

Benin, Congo
Busted: Kiki Sassou Nguesso’s ghost PR writer unmasked by her own computer!

After a stint in South Africa, Rachelle Yayi-Paraiso, the daughter [...]