In parallel to its military attack on Ukraine, the Kremlin is mixing religion and diplomacy in an offensive against the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Africa.
First named Bankers Cobalt to ride the cobalt wave, then Central African Gold as gold prices rose, the company led in the DRC by Yves Kabongo has now morphed again into African Energy Metals.
Célestin Tawamba, head of Cameroon's employers' federation and owner of La Pasta, is leading the Cameroonian flour mills' revolt against the government. After failing to obtain tax and customs exemptions, he and his competitors have decided to flout their sector's regulations.
Until recently, the Chinese major has been able to run its oil operations in Niger almost entirely as it wished, yet the Bazoum government has recently decided to get tough.
A fierce critic of Paul Kagame's regime, Paul Rusesabagina has now turned to the US courts to claim hundreds of millions of dollars from the Rwandan state following his arrest in Kigali in bizarre circumstances in 2020.
The Kenyan president's right-hand man, Nzioka Waita, is hoping to get himself elected as governor of a strategic county near Nairobi. He knows he needs a major image makeover to convince voters and beat off the competition.
In a bid to regain some of the limelight stolen by his deputy, sovereignty council president Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is working to unite Sudan's various militia groups into a single armed force.
Mainly operating in DRC, China's Pengxin is finalising the purchase of its second South African gold mine, Tau Lekoa, a historic site that has been in turmoil for years.
The Rwandan company has joined, at the last minute, the list of firms bidding to carry out preparatory work at the site of the Mozambique LNG project. French major TotalEnergies has a debt to pay to Rwanda for its role in restoring security in Cabo Delgado Province.
Mohamed Chaouki, MP for the Boulemane constituency, who already runs the Emirati fund EIIC's Moroccan subsidiary, has created a new asset management company. He is also a director of Afriquia Gaz, owned by the prime minister and billionaire Aziz Akhannouch.
The French defence contractor has had to firmly defend the cost of its services to keep its MRO contract with the Royal Moroccan Navy.
Angered by Kais Saied's silence over Ukraine, EU commissioner Oliver Varhelyi has cancelled his trip to Tunis planned between 1 and 3 March.
