With his last term in office due to expire in December 2016, Joseph Kabila is maintaining the suspense surrounding his intentions and ratcheting up tensions as the presidential election approaches. Under the new electoral law, he cannot stand for re-election, [.
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Under pressure from the growing insecurity in the north, the president has been forced to overhaul his intelligence services.
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Despite the implosion of the opposition, the president's camp is uneasy. Here's why.
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The Socfin boss is suspected of setting up a system of kickbacks from which several senior officials in Conakry have benefited. The story so far.
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In private, Alpha Conde is no longer making any secret [...]
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After a discreet flying visit to Paris on 29 May [...]
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Mauritania would very much like to see its camel cavalry [...]
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The Cameroonian delegation headed by the foreign minister Lejeune Mbella [...]
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With the Taiwan issue settled, China's expansion in the sub-region looks set to shift up another gear. Analysis.
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The businessman used his networks to obtain a private audience with the Angolan president in Paris and raise the issue of money owed to his firm.
The Ivorian prime minister has awarded one of its very first contracts to Southbridge Bank, co-founded by the former prime minister of Benin.
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The unusually large attendance (some one hundred company bosses) at [...]
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The Togolese authorities have still not paid a single penny [...]
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Patrick Pouyanne mutated into an unofficial ambassador for Joao Lourenco [...]
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Due to the economic and financial crisis in Congo-B, which [...]
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There is much anxiety at the moment in the Ivorian [...]
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Olivier Bouygues, the deputy chief executive of the Bouygues company, [...]
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Denis Sassou-Nguesso's special advisor Lucien Ebata made a whistle-stop visit [...]
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Having organised a special briefing workshop on the country on [...]
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Faure Gnassingbe is standing behind Vincent Bollore after the businessman [...]
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Guy Laurent Fondjo, who since 2015 has been the MD [...]
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Togo's leading opposition figure, the 66-year-old Jean-Pierre Fabre known as ‘Jeanpi', is due to visit the French capital in mid-June. [...]
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It seems that Patrice Talon holds grudges. Having failed to obtain the support of Adrien Houngbedji, the leader of the [...]
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The former President of the Bar Akere Muna, who will stand in the October presidential election in Cameroon (WAN 768), [...]
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Since her appointment in 2015 as a magistrate at the Tribunal de Grande Instance (high court) in Ouagadougou, strategically sensitive [...]
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As he prepares to welcome French president Emmanuel Macron on an official visit to Abuja in early July, Nigerian president [...]
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French magistrate Serge Tournaire, who charged French business magnate Vincent Bollore with corruption on April 25 after having investigated the [...]
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