By exploiting Beijing's concerns over the lack of security in Mali, the Senegalese president is seeking to revise the project to overhaul the rail connection between Dakar and Bamako, one of China's many commercial and diplomatic mega-projects in the sub-region [.
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The businessman is simultaneously in dispute with the Gabonese government and the oil junior.
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The major stumbling block in the dialogue between the Togolese government is the burning issue of whether the president can seek another term in 2020.
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Quite apart from the daunting social implications of a regime of austerity, the president's prevarication in relation to the IMF is motivated by a desire to protect his inner circle.
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The president's chief of staff is seeking to encroach on Frederic Bongo's private preserve.
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Alassane Ouattara is due to travel to Accra in Ghana [...]
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Rather than creating his own political party, the Beninese businessman [...]
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Although he is the deputy chairman of the Rassemblement des [...]
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With the support of the royal family and various lobbying diplomats, Belgian firms are carving themselves out a niche in Abidjan.
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The South African company may be disqualified after winning the call for the tenders to deploy this new technology.
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The termination of Veolia's concession will in all likelihood end up in court.
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Egis Eau, the subsidiary of the French company Egis International, is on the shortlist of firms bidding for the contract to conduct a technical audit of drinking water norms as part of the programme to improve the supply of drinking water in urban areas la
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The administrative and financial director of the Compagnie nationale de [...]
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Created in late 2017 but only genuinely operational since early [...]
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The Ivorian authorities have still not approved the agreement to [...]
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Tullow is on a roll in Abidjan. On 13 February [...]
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The construction firm Ekacico-CI, founded by the Lebanese businessman Hassan [...]
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Alassane Ouattara has nominated Adama Benoit Yeo as the managing [...]
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Michel Essonghe, the 77-year-old boss of Ayoba, a catering company [...]
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The deputy chairman of the Parti democratique de Cote d'Ivoire (PDCI), Jeannot Ahoussou Kouadio, is set to be named as [...]
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With the fifth term of Benin's Constitutional Court due to come to an end in June, Patrice Talon, who never [...]
On 6 February, Colonel Apollinaire Essodina Kadanga, who is a Kabye from Pya in the north like President Faure Gnassingbe, [...]
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Between sessions of prayer, the 52-year-old Pascal Bodjona is following the political and social situation in Togo very closely. Freed [...]
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Christian Estrosi, mayor of the French city of Nice, who was in Dakar from February 24 to 27 to strengthen [...]
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Among the different demands made as part of the dialogue which got under way with the regime of Faure Gnassingbe [...]
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Even though it looks none too far-reaching, the February 20 Gabonese government reshuffle shows the growing influence of presidential chief [...]
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