Palace Intrigues
Vital Kamerhe, OIF summit, Denis Sassou Nguesso, François Gouyette

Egypt, Morocco
French-speaking nations club OIF helps firms set up in Cairo and Casablanca

The French-speaking nations club OIF is organising business prospection trips to Cairo and Casablanca to attract entrepreneurs and investors from French-speaking regions to the two cities. The OIF is targeting the agri-food, renewable energy and digital sectors.

Palace Intrigues
João Lourenço, Macky Sall, Jacques Ychalingonza Nduru, Laurent Gbagbo, Didier Drogba

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

Angola/Senegal Lourenço cuts short Dakar trip after Sall leaves

DRC Military intelligence chief finds wire bug

Ivory Coast Gbagbo's bank account startlingly empty

Ivory Coast Super luxury La Résidence Hotel welcomes VIPs

Palace Intrigues
Denis Sassou Nguesso, Nana Akufo-Addo, Karanja Kibicho, Félix Houphouët-Boigny

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

Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso wants Lotfi Bel Hadj's head

Ghana/France Nana Akufo-Addo's packed Paris stay

Kenya Securocrat Kibicho moves into luxury hotels

Ivory Coast Magnate Beydoun buys up Houphouët-Boigny's real estate assets

Algeria, France
After a slow start, Medef turns to Tebboune-era employers' organisation CREA

On the sidelines of the Franco-Algerian high-level intergovernmental committee held in Algiers on 9 and 10 October, Medef vice-president Fabrice Le Saché had a long discussion with Kamel Moula, president of the Algerian Economic Renewal Council, CREA.

Algeria
CREA employers' federation seeks to embody Algerian economic revival

Algeria's brand new CREA employers' federation has hit the ground running and established itself as a key player in the business community. It is keen to distance itself from the defunct business leaders' forum led by jailed oligarch Ali Haddad, a vestige of the last years of the Bouteflika regime.

Spotlight | DRC, Rwanda
Diplomatic cat and mouse from New York to Paris over Rwanda's alleged support for M23 rebels

Western capitals and the United Nations remain wary of dealing with the evidence that they say they have concerning Rwanda's support for the rebel M23 movement, much to the displeasure of Kinshasa.

Algeria, France
As they return to Algiers, French bosses caught between old and new worlds

Representatives of more than a dozen major French companies will later this month pay their first visit to Algiers in five years. But the government is unhappy with their umbrella organisation's continuing collaboration with a counterpart entity associated with the ousted Bouteflika administration.

Tahakom, MBS' latest creation, hastens push into big data

The state-owned cyber technology company Tahakom has recently issued its first tenders for a big data processing tool. Several Western [...]