Since his election in August 2009, Gabon's President Ali Bongo, who is rather isolated in the region, has looked further afield in search of new partners, and with a certain degree of success. Some partners have even set up shop [.
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Abidjan’s landmark Hotel Ivoire is re-opening on November 15 after a major overhaul. Initially, 220 rooms in the hotel’s tower [...]
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President Alassane Ouattara has brought together a team of personal allies to help him reform the oil sector.
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France does not want to lose out to China in its business dealings with Benin. But relations between Paris and Cotonou are not at their best.
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The recent arrest of the former number two of the military junta that held power from 2010 to 2011 has revived tensions between the head of state and the army.
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Prevented from defending Kpatcha Gnassingbe, French lawyer Christian Charriere-Bournazel fired off an angry letter to Togo’s Supreme Court.
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Key posts in Equatorial Guinea continue to be handed out [...]
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Against the wishes of his own movement within the Rassemblement [...]
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After winning the contract to extend the Azito 3 power [...]
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At a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao on September [...]
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On October 20 President Alpha Conde will lay the first [...]
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The Ivorian group Eurofind, headed by Mustapha Khalil, is poised [...]
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The Ivorian private company Corporate Elite Group, founded in 2006 [...]
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Banker Souleymane Diarrassouba will lead discussions in the coming weeks [...]
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Denis Sassou Nguesso puts the multiple debt claims against the Congolese state to his hand-picked treasury committee.
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Despite the failures of the past, plans are afoot to re-launch Gabon Airlines next year.
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Dozens of Congo’s presidential guards have discreetly moved into the [...]
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After Guinea, where it is to build a factory manufacturing [...]
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The Canadian oil and gas company Griffiths Energy International, headed [...]
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The daughter of Pierre Moussa, Republic of Congo’s immovable minister [...]
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