Gabon
Former IMF head Strauss-Kahn offers his services to Oligui Nguema

Gabon
Libreville counts on Rothschild bank for help

With Gabon facing a number of debt repayment deadlines in 2025, the government has been using the services of the bank Rothschild. The financial services group handled the recent partial repurchase of Gabon's Eurobonds.

Palace Intrigues
Patrice Talon, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Macky Sall, Guillaume Soro, Félix Tshisekedi

Intrigues big and small - every Thursday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

BeninStrauss-Kahn on a mission in Cotonou

Ivory Coast/SenegalSoro's phone call to Sall

DRCNew National Assembly president to decide on finance minister's immunity waiver

West Africa
Strauss-Kahn pursues his business prospecting marathon in Cotonou

Former International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who now heads his own Parnasse International consulting company, has been in the Beninese capital, Cotonou, since Sunday 21 February.

Spotlight | Africa, France
Far from the cameras Strauss-Kahn plays white "soothsayer"

The disgraced director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is trying to re-invent himself by bringing business deals to Africa, a continent he has visited regularly in recent months. His targets are presidents and his specialty is restructuring [.