On September 11, France's murky dealings with Africa were thrust into the spotlight when, three days before French investigative journalist Pierre Pean's explosive "La Republique des Mallettes" hit bookshelves, lawyer Robert Bourgi, a long-time presidential advisor and go-between, said in [.
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On September 16 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it would lend Ivory Coast $614 million to help the country [...]
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The military chiefs of Ivory Coast’s former Forces Nouvelles rebel movement have been drawing attention to themselves by splurging cash on property and flashy cars.
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Although busy dealing with Guinea's mining and port concessions, Alpha Conde has found time to move forward on a key security project.
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The idyll between the Wade family and Robert Bourgi is definitively over, with both sides now determinedly out to get one another as Senegal's elections loom.
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Several military heads of the former Forces Nouvelles rebel movement [...]
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The Ivorian infrastructure minister, Patrick Achi, is mulling a state [...]
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The debt situation of Megamonde, the company owned by Lebanese [...]
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At the request of the Ivorian state, Paul Herve Vintrou, [...]
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The Centre d’Etude et de Prospective Strategique (CEPS), a Paris-based [...]
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The former head of Ivory Coast’s tax authority under Laurent [...]
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The upcoming municipal elections in the oil city of Pointe Noire are shaping up to be a stand-off between the incumbent and an ambitious pretender.
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Some CFA 94 billion of public money is to be spent on the eve of the Africa Nations Cup to ensure that the continent’s soccer stars will be able to have a decent post-match shower.
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President Ali Bongo has appointed two communications experts to head Gabon’s strategically important embassies in Paris and Washington.
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Sparks flew at the presidential palace at the end of [...]
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Cameroon’s considerate Freemasons are putting the country’s presidential elections first. [...]
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On August 11 the commercial branch of Gabonese’s Cour de [...]
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The international director of Orange/France Telecom, Marc Rennard, and Claire [...]
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A special event in Libreville on September 16 to unveil [...]
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Frenchman Christian Lenoble, the director of the Cameroon Oil Transportation [...]
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