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N°662 Paris, 07/03/2013 Subscribe  | Country Channels Frédéric Lejeal NIGER Editor in chief Issoufou hangs on by thread Sand-storms are swirling around Niamey. Undermined by the insecurity that seems to have encircled Niger for the foreseeable future, President Mahamadou Issoufou has had to increase military spending to the detriment of other pressing needs. With power outages and strikes on the increase, the winner of the 2011 presidential election seems increasingly out of his depth as he tries to juggle competing priorities. (...)     POWER PLAYERS IVORY COAST Dominique's donors get VIP treatment     It was party time at the Hotel Sofitel Ivoire on June 29, when Dominique Ouattara hosteda hosted a gala dinner for sponsors of a new CFA 4 billion (€6 million) maternity hospital in Bingerville that will probably bear the first lady's name. (...)    IVORY COAST Hospital renovations spell windfalls     Keen to have something to show for his term in office by the presidential elections in 2015, Alassane Ouattara has greenlit a project to renovate Abidjan's main hospitals. (...)    COURT CIRCULAR CAMEROON Biya's candidate for the constitutional council     Alexis Dipanda Mouéllé, an ethnic Abo from the coastal province of Cameroon who currently chairs the Supreme Court, is hotly tipped to become the new head of the constitutional council. (...)    EQUATORIAL GUINEA Obiang's gift to Paris     Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiangis to give France the new Maison de la Francophonie in Bata, the country's second city, he told the French ambassador to Malabo, François Barateau, in a letter on June 3. (...)    BURKINA FASO Compaore lambasts Toumani Toure     Blaise Compaorédid not mince his words when he addressed the French parliamentary foreign affairs commission on June 5. (...)    SENEGAL Struggle for control of PDS underway     Despite Abdoulaye Wade's continued assertions that he is the Parti Democratique Senegalais' 'only constant', with the ex-president tucked away in exile in France the party is now in the grip of a succession war. (...)    GUINEA Parliamentary election date set     After numerous false starts Guinea's general election looks set to take place in September, giving the electoral commission time to take into account a deal recently brokered between the government and the opposition. (...)    CAMEROON Ouattara, Deby and Ali boost Biya     The recent choice of country to host the headquarters of the new region-wide maritime safety centre prompted a yet another Central African regional power-struggle. (...)    CONGO-B Yet another forum…     The French-speaking African magazine Forbes Afrique is behind a new Republic of Congo international conference designed to rival Gabon's New York Forum Africa. (...)    GABON Ali and Pascaline fall out over oil     Oil, as well as their father Omar Bongo's estate, is behind a fresh feud between Ali Bongo and his sister Pascaline. (...)    BUSINESS IVORY COAST Bouygues in line for Abidjan hospital contract     French group Bouygues is poised to win the contract to renovate the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) teaching hospital in Yopougon, Abidjan. (...)    IVORY COAST Acqua Nova wins case against soccer star Drogba     In a ruling handed down at the end of June, the business court of Ajaccio, Corsica, ordered Ivorian soccer star Didier Drogba to pay building company Acqua Nova €450,000 compensation (...)    NIGER Sahel Petrogaz goes into business in Niger     Hama Saloum, the managing director of Cigale Finance, finalised the creation of his new company Sahel Petrogaz with the signature of a shareholders' agreement in Paris on June 17 (...)    IVORY COAST Carrefour takes on Prosuma in Abidjan     After monopolizing the supermarket sector in Ivory Coast for two decades, Prosuma(Promotion de Supermarches), which is owned by the Lebanese-Pakistani families Fakry, Ezzedine and (...)    IVORY COAST Egis in holding pattern on airport city     The Ivorian government and Egis, the French transport, urban planning and environment consulting and engineering group are still thrashing out how to proceed with a housing and office (...)    GABON SOVOG dumped in Libreville     In trouble with the government over the piles of domestic waste that are left on Libreville's streets, the state-owned Societe de Valorisation des Ordures Menageres du Gabon (SOVOG) (...)    AFRICA/FRANCE AEF gets new name     The French overseas public broadcasting group Audiovisuel Exterieur de la France(AEF), which includes the international TV news channel France 24, the radio service RFI and the Arabic (...)    WHO'S NEWS GABON GUIDO SANTULLO (Sericom)     ? After rebuilding the Kango Bridge, some 100km inland from Libreville, which was inaugurated by President Ali Bongo on May 22, 76-year-old chief executive Guido Santullo's company (...)    CONGO-B LOUIS KANOHA-ELENGA (SNE)     ?Louis Kanoha-Elenga, 55, President Denis Sassou Nguesso's advisor on energy and hydro-electric power since 2008, was appointed head of the Societe Nationale d'Energie (SNE) on June (...)

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