Gabon
Freed from creditors, Libreville's Paris mansion set for facelift

Gabon
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema to meet with Emmanuel Macron in May

Gabonese transition president, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, with meet with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée Palace after France announced it would review its military presence in Libreville.

Gabon
Pozzo di Borgo Parisian residence faces fresh seizure threat

A Lebanese company in dispute with the Gabonese state is attempting to seize the luxury Paris townhouse. Gabon has owned the property, which these days hosts top-flight fashion shows, since 2010.

Equatorial Guinea
'Ill-Gotten Gains': Malabo throws in the towel

The Equatorial Guinean vice-minister of justice has just parted ways with lawyer Kevin Grossmann, who since 2021 has been Malabo's lawyer in the matter of the building at 42 Avenue Foch in Paris, seized from the VP Teodorin Obiang Nguema in the "Ill-Gotten Gains" case.

Palace Intrigues
Nicolas Sarkozy, Teodorin Obiang, François Beya and Thomas Boni Yayi

Intrigues big and small. Every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

Congo/France Denis Sassou Nguesso invites Sarkozy to stay

Equatorial Guinea VP Teodorin Obiang holidays in Lisbon

Congo/DRC François Beya looked after by JDO

Benin/Guinea Thomas Boni Yayi enlists daughter in mediation

Gabon
Sylvia and Pascaline Bongo make up again in latest episode of palace soap opera

They fall out, make up and then fall out again... Now, the Gabonese president's sister and the first lady have patched up up their differences once again. But their reconciliation is having repercussions in the president's family and even on the functioning of the president's office.

Document | Gabon
Ali Bongo and Santullo come to blows over 165 billion

Three ICC judges in Paris adjudicate the dispute between Libreville and the entrepreneur Guido Santullo. The latest revelations.

Attempted seizure of Karl Lagerfeld's former Paris mansion just days before Fashion Week

Karl Lagerfeld's former mansion played host to Marni and Victoria Beckham's fashion shows, among others, during the latest Paris Fashion Week. But now a creditor of the Gabonese state, its current owner, is trying to seize the building.