Spotlight | Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
The long-standing dispute poisoning relations between Malabo and Yaoundé

Palace Intrigues
Teodorin Obiang Nguema, Paul Biya, Raila Odinga, Cyril Ramaphosa and Alassane Ouattara

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

CameroonTeodorin Obiang Nguema cosies up to busy Biyas

KenyaRaila Odinga's posthumous, final memoir in the offing

South AfricaCyril Ramaphosa chides his oil minister for being hooked on hydrocarbons

Ivory CoastOuattara and Macron like ships in the night

Equatorial Guinea
Presidential Boeing temporarily seized in Rome

An Equatorial Guinean presidential plane was seized in Rome in August by a maintenance company claiming unpaid bills from the national airline Ceiba. The Italian courts ordered the seizure to be lifted within a few days.

Equatorial Guinea
Ambassador to Paris victim of seizure of 42 Avenue Foch property

At the heart of a long-running legal dispute, the building in the French capital has finally been appropriated by the French authorities. On the same day, Malabo fired its Paris ambassador.

Cameroon
Nephew of foreign affairs minister imprisoned in visa fraud case

The nephew of Lejeune Mbella Mbella, Cameroon's foreign affairs minister, and Division Chief Serge Ayissi have been detained in Kondengui central prison for fraud.

Equatorial Guinea
Malabo finally gets one over on Cameroonian businessman Yves-Michel Fotso

After more than ten years of a legal battle that has cost it dearly, Equatorial Guinea has finally salvaged something from the wreckage at the Paris Court of Appeal against Groupe Fotso.

Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
Fotso suffers new defeat

In a fresh victory for Malabo, a French court has overturned the seizure of three government-owned apartments in Paris in a long-standing dispute between the regime and opposition figure Yves Michel Fotso.