Africa: The Club of Five and the Sociopath

Paul Martial — 2025-07-29T08:54:00Z

The return of the United States to the African scene is aimed at taking advantage of the continent's riches, a clearly stated objective of the Trump administration.

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Africa, Senegal, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Gabon, Mauritania

The end of a dynasty

Paul Martial — 2023-09-13T21:31:18Z

By putting an end to Bongo's power, the army is trying to perpetuate the system, but it is not counting on the popular will for real change in the country.

- IV584 - September 2023 / Gabon

Social struggles and the birth of a new consciousness

Jean Nanga — 2017-09-07T11:36:08Z

The Yaoundé Summit of Central African heads of state – Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic and Chad – was held during the second half of 2016, a fairly volatile period in the sub-region. Alongside the Central African Republic, where the violence which began in 2013 has sporadically re-emerged; Equatorial Guinea where, in order to develop his “Abayak holding” and his “shares in all the economic sector” the autocrat Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (in power since 1979 when he ousted his uncle, the previous president), had himself re-elected in April with 97% of the vote with his repressive apparatus dissuading any popular mobilisation; and the Republic of the Congo, where opposition to the regime has generated a confused and murderous military situation which began in Brazzaville and has since spread to the neighbouring department of Pool; the three other countries of the sub-region entered 2017 in an atmosphere of popular mobilisation.

- IV512 - September 2017 / Africa, Equatorial Guinea , Congo, Chad, Central African Republic, Gabon, Cameroon

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Africa: The Club of Five and the Sociopath

The end of a dynasty

Social struggles and the birth of a new consciousness