Despite winning a clear victory in the legislative elections on December 11, which delivered 127 seats to his Rassemblement des Republicains (RDR) and another 35 seats to allied independent candidates, out of a total 254 seats, President Alassane Ouattara remains [.
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Alstom chief Patrick Kron was on a trade mission to Brazil with French prime minister François Fillon in December when [...]
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A second tier of cocoa exporters is bidding to make inroads into a marketplace dominated by four major companies.
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The ruling CDP party is poised to welcome back Blaise Compaore’s former right-hand man Salif Diallo.
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The U.S. law and lobbying firm McKenna, Long & Aldridge has been hired to bolster the credibility of President Abdoulaye Wade’s run for a third term in February.
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Two years after his contested electoral victory in August 2009, President Ali Bongo has made Gabon’s parliament even more monolithic than it was in his father Omar Bongo’s day.
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President Ali Bongo wants Gabon to work with an array of international partners. But the country’s chaotic foreign service does not necessarily facilitate matters.
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Less in trouble in the U.S. than his son Teodorin, President Obiang took an award at the recent Sullivan Honors.
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Tensions after the presidential elections on November 28 caused a [...]
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Denis Sassou-Nguesso was "very angry", according to an aide, during [...]
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Interior Minister Raymond Mboulou made a low key visit to [...]
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Having managed to have some sixty Congolese embassy bank accounts [...]
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Uniform and non-lethal civil and military equipment manufacturer Mag Force [...]
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Engen Petroleum, a subsidiary of the Malaysian oil company Petronas, [...]
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Francois-Xavier Malinowski, the head of Sono Plus, a French company [...]
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The Swiss-German group Kempinski, which lost out to French hotel [...]
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Essakane, a 90% owned subsidiary of the Canadian mining company [...]
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BNP Paribas is taking an interest in Ivory Coast's mining [...]
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Founder and head of the food industry group Fadil, Mohamadou [...]
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The CEO of Ogar-Vie, Gabon’s leading insurance group, and a [...]
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