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Spotlight | Mali
French business stakes out opportunities

After France's Operation Serval, the French business community's appetite for Mali is being whetted by the forthcoming elections and the promise that life in the country may soon get back to normal. Faced with the inevitable competition from Asian rivals, [...]

Published on 19.06.2013 at 22:01 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Albatros Technologies
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Francois Bozize
Gilles Huberson
Henri Proglio
Jean-Philippe Gouyet
Jean-Pierre Perez
Laurent Fabius
Medef
Michel Roussin
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Safran-Morpho
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Africa, France
Bamako summit to host new economic forum

As part of the 27th France/Africa summit due to be [...]

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Mali
IBK turns again to Paris

After a cool period in 2014, relations between Bamako and Paris are showing signs of warming up again. The explanation?

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France
Army outsources support in Africa

The French army makes extensive use of private aircraft charter [...]

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Ivory Coast
Abidjan strategic for Barkhane

Ivory Coast will play a strategic role in supporting Operation Barkhane, whose command was officially installed in the Chadian capital [...]

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Spotlight | Central African Republic
Paris mired in lengthy crisis

The French authorities are increasingly concerned about Paris' isolation in the face of Central African Republic's worsening crisis. The European Union, which has not been very involved, has been unable to rustle up even 600 soldiers to launch Operation Eufor-RCA [.

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Spotlight | Africa
French military fatigues still in vogue

Despite France's revision of its defence agreements with various African nations and the scaling back of its permanent military bases on the continent, Africa remains fertile terrain for the French military. Scores of French officers, serving or retired, are engaged [.

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Spotlight | Africa, France
Testing times for old economic ties

Talking up the economic potential of Africa is very much in vogue in France these days. But there is a disconnect between the portrayal of Africa as a land of opportunities simply waiting to be seized and the harsher reality [.

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France, Mali
Hollande's super task force to Bamako

François Hollande was keen to mark the occasion for the international investiture of the new President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar [...]

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Mali
Keita ponders PM candidates

Ibrahim Boubacar Kéita, who will be inaugurated as Mali's new president on September 4, has been busy mulling candidates for his new cabinet.

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Mali
EADS plane-talking in Bamako

In advanced talks with the Malian government (WAN 661), Jean-Philippe [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.07.2013

Mali
Bamako in grip of PR fever

Malian and foreign spin doctors are working all out to promote some of the key presidential hopefuls.

Subscribers only Politics 05.06.2013

Mali
Challenging presidential heavyweights

In a country that already has 160 political parties, a number of plucky outsiders have decided to throw their hat into the ring in Mali’s upcoming presidential elections.

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Mali
Politicians gear up for presidential poll

Laurent Fabius’s visit to Bamako on April 4 and 5 and Paris’ insistence that Bamako to stick to presidential elections in July have girded electoral campaign staff into action.

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Mali
Politicos jockey for position

Despite the ongoing chaos in Mali, there is no shortage of candidates hoping to step into Traore's shoes when the country goes to the polls in a few months' time.

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Spotlight | Mali
Paris stays at the helm

Despite the claim in French President François Hollande's speech in Bamako on February 2 that France had "no material interests in Mali," Paris is keen to capitalise on its triumphant and well-received anti-jihadist intervention in the country.

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Spotlight | Mali, Niger
Issoufou urges French to act

A year after his election in April 2011, Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou is battling growing insecurity around his country. As time goes by, an uneasy status quo is settling on Northern Mali, just across the border from Niger, between armed [.

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Mali
Traore leaves power vacuum

With an army unsure that it wants to give up power, a prime minister who is out of his depth and an interim president hospitalised in France, Mali’s political future is far from clear.

Subscribers only Politics 30.05.2012

Spotlight | Mali
Bamako’s race against the clock

Until his downfall in the early hours of March 22, Amadou Toumani Toure - ATT - had been in denial: denial that threats were weighing on his country; denial that his regime was so fragile that it would fall like [.

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Spotlight | Mali
Paris pressures Bamako to deal with AQIM

Mali’s politically independent President Amadou Toumani Toure, known for his softly-softly approach, has not earned any plaudits for his weak response in dealing with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). However if Toure, who came to power in 2002, [.

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Africa, France Bamako summit to host new economic forum

Mali IBK turns again to Paris

France Army outsources support in Africa

Ivory Coast Abidjan strategic for Barkhane

Spotlight | Central African Republic Paris mired in lengthy crisis

Spotlight | Africa French military fatigues still in vogue

Spotlight | Africa, France Testing times for old economic ties

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Mali Bamako in grip of PR fever

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Mali Politicians gear up for presidential poll

Mali Politicos jockey for position

Spotlight | Mali Paris stays at the helm

Spotlight | Mali, Niger Issoufou urges French to act

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Spotlight | Mali Bamako’s race against the clock

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Guinea
Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

DRC
Dan Gertler's billions of dollars in royalties at heart of huge legal battle

Spotlight | Mali
French business stakes out opportunities

Africa, France
Bamako summit to host new economic forum

Mali
IBK turns again to Paris

France
Army outsources support in Africa

Ivory Coast
Abidjan strategic for Barkhane

Spotlight | Central African Republic
Paris mired in lengthy crisis

Spotlight | Africa
French military fatigues still in vogue

Spotlight | Africa, France
Testing times for old economic ties

France, Mali
Hollande's super task force to Bamako

Mali
Keita ponders PM candidates

Mali
EADS plane-talking in Bamako

Mali
Bamako in grip of PR fever

Mali
Challenging presidential heavyweights

Mali
Politicians gear up for presidential poll

Mali
Politicos jockey for position

Spotlight | Mali
Paris stays at the helm

Spotlight | Mali, Niger
Issoufou urges French to act

Mali
Traore leaves power vacuum

Spotlight | Mali
Bamako’s race against the clock

Spotlight | Mali
Paris pressures Bamako to deal with AQIM