French development agency changes its director for africa

• SENEGAL - Rémi Rioux posts former Senegalese minister Papa Amadou Sarr to the AFD. 

• BENIN - Schwan Badirou Gafari, the Franco-Beninese civil servant steering the Elysée's financial affairs.

• KENYA - Linet Chepkorir, the pro-Ruto child prodigy of the Rift Valley. 

• SOMALIA - Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, the US link in Hassan Sheikh's cabinet. 

Jérémie Pellet to stay on as Expertise France CEO 

The former adviser to Manuel Valls at Matignon notably supervised the French operator's integration within the French Development Agency (AFD)

Bpifrance partners with Islamic Development Bank to extend Africa reach 

The French investment bank has teamed up with the Jeddah-based organisation in order to diversify and expand on the continent.

Expertise France resumes service in Libya and tends to its local networks 

Relocated to Tunis in 2014, the Libya branch of Expertise France, the French technical cooperation agency, is seeking to piece back together its networks in the country.

Expertise France wants to block Gulf of Guinea's cocaine highway 

The French development agency (AFD)'s technical cooperation arm, Expertise France, is keen to run the EU-funded €5m Gulf of Guinea security project called Seaport Cooperation.

Expertise France is EU favourite for military contracts in Sahel 

Expertise France has pocketed nearly €200m in European funds over the past two years for a variety of G5 Sahel projects that include military equipment delivery and army support programme management.