In the rapidly shrinking Franco-African village, some influential women are still making their mark, led by first ladies Dominique Ouattara, Sylvia Bongo and Viviane Wade. Either as the heads of charitable foundations or as businesswomen, this politically-astute threesome know how [.
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Ivory Coast’s Finance Minister Charles Diby Koffi wore a contented smile at the French embassy in Abidjan’s Bastille Day garden [...]
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Three months after his inauguration as president of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara appears to have little confidence in his Prime Minister, and vice versa.
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A mass in Latin, a visit to Ouidah and a visit to a friend’s grave will be on the agenda of Pope Benoit XVI’s trip to Benin in November.
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Ten months after seven staff were kidnapped by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) Areva is sending a first batch of expatriates back to work in the country.
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On July 7, Jean-Michel Abimbola, Benin’s government spokesman and minister [...]
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While visiting Benin on July 18, Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou [...]
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U.S. giant Procter & Gamble has been temporarily barred from [...]
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In a case brought by the financial services company Intangis [...]
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The French group Olheol Industrie, headed by Charles Alexandre Keita [...]
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The International Finance Corp (IFC), the World Bank’s private sector [...]
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Ismaila Diaby, founder and director of the Abidjan-based media and [...]
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Even the secretary-general of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (IOF) is losing his cool over Central African Republic’s opaque affairs.
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The French authorities are unable to meet their annual quotas of illegal immigrants sent back to Gabon because of Gabonese red tape.
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Denis Sassou Nguesso has been counting on members of his family coming back to the ruling PCT party, but success is not a foregone conclusion.
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On July 12 Vincent Fouda, who will be running in [...]
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President Paul Biya is expected to profit from his trip [...]
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Adolphe Moudiki, the CEO of the Societe Nationale des Hydrocarbures [...]
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Linus Nkule, an engineer who hails from Menoua, in the [...]
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