Palace Intrigues
Alassane Ouattara, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Laurent and Simone Gbagbo

Palace Intrigues
Patrice Talon, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Macky Sall, Guillaume Soro, Félix Tshisekedi

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

BeninStrauss-Kahn on a mission in Cotonou

Ivory Coast/SenegalSoro's phone call to Sall

DRCNew National Assembly president to decide on finance minister's immunity waiver

Palace Intrigues
Alassane Ouattara, Félix Tshisekedi, Amadou Ba, Mahamat Idriss Déby

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

Ivory Coast Ouattara sponsors African journalism award ceremony

DRC Tshisekedi offers Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella signed copy of his book

Senegal Amadou Ba's stay in Paris

Chad Mahamat Idriss Déby to publish new autobiography

Ivory Coast
Ex-French president Sarkozy to attend Dominique Ouattara's gala in Abidjan

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will be in Abidjan in early March. He plans to take part in a gala organised there by Children of Africa, the foundation headed by Ivorian First Lady Dominique Ouattara.

Palace Intrigues
Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Alassane Ouattara, Félix Tshisekedi, Vincent de Paul Massassa

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

Congo Influential Julienne Johnson becomes an official adviser to her father

Ivory Coast Ouattara's former special adviser Serey-Eiffel back in Abidjan

DRC Tshisekedi's favourite luxury hotels in the Big Apple

Gabon Vincent de Paul Massassa makes a final, quick trip to oil ministry

Congo, Gabon
Omar Denis Junior Bongo's Brazzaville dowry sparks hopes of Gabon detente

The grandson of Congolese president Sassou Nguesso has given his fiancée's family a dowry at a ceremony in Brazzaville in the presence Omar Bongo's eldest daughter Pascaline, heralding a further thaw in relations between the two countries.