Burkina Faso, France
France to provide Burkina Faso with military and financial support

Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo
EU defence attachés to reinforce military diplomacy in coastal countries

The European External Action Service aims to create four new defence attaché posts to increase Brussels' security cooperation with four coastal countries of West Africa by the end of the year.

Chad
EU suspends €10m in military aid

Following a diplomatic dispute between Chad and Germany, the EU has put a military aid package for the Chadian armed forces on hold.

West Africa
Ukraine war prompts Brussels to delay delivery of French armoured vehicles to Africa

The armed forces of Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Gabon will have to wait a little longer to receive the first transfers of French armoured personnel carriers under the Integrated Ground Mobility and Protection Programme that Paris launched last year.

Palace Intrigues
Denis Sassou Nguesso, Mohamed Bazoum, Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, Faure Gnassingbé, Moïse Katumbi

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

Congo Sassou purchases self-promotion in Paris

Niger/Burkina Faso Bazoum orders Colonel Damiba to dress in civilian clothes

Togo Gnassingbé plans to build new ministerial district in Lomé

DR Congo Moïse Katumbi's discreet lobbying in Paris

East Africa, France
New East Africa head at French foreign ministry

Thierry Peyroux replaces diplomat Marion Lapierre as head of the 'East Africa' sub-directorate at France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Spotlight | West Africa
Inside the EU's new security lab

The European Union is drawing up the contours of a new programme to boost the armies of the countries of the Sahel and Gulf of Guinea. Already widely used to support Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion, the European Peace Facility must be at the center of this new West African strategy.

Burkina Faso
Canada aid cut riles Burkinabe government but indirect funding continues

Some officials in Burkina Faso have expressed dismay at Ottawa's suspension of its direct budgetary support in the wake of the coup d'état. But Canada, the country's leading foreign investor through its mining companies, is maintaining the bulk of its aid.