The once feared Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission now provides a home for people waiting to bounce back into public life or those whom governors need to thank for services rendered.
Though he has won his litigation against MagIndustries, Longbo Chen will have a hard time obtaining the $700,000 compensation award from his former employer. The Canadian firm's parent company is in liquidation and its owner is under arrest in China.
Africa Intelligence has pieced together the circumstances surrounding the arrest of the businessman Alexander Zingman, who is reputed to have close ties with the government in Minsk.
Following Laurent Gbagbo's final acquittal by the ICC on 31 March, Alassane Ouattara has set up a task force to facilitate the return of the former president, who still faces a 20-year prison sentence at home.
A delegation of a dozen French MPs is due to be dispatched to Cotonou from 8 to 12 April to act as "election observers".
The Kenyan president has been exploiting the closure of the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps to political ends to put pressure on the Somalian leader Farmajo. In an attempt to defuse the heightened tensions between Nairobi and Mogadishu, Western powers have indicated that they may reduce aid to Kenya unless Kenyatta reverses course.
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote's firm has won an appeal against Enfin, the company that introduced it to the Zambian authorities and claimed it was owed unpaid fees. Enfin was founded by Andrew Kamanga, who recently renewed his term as president of the Football Association of Zambia.
The development of BP's Pala, Ástrea and Juno fields at Block 31, which are seen as the assets most likely to yield an increase in its Angolan output, will not be on the cards until early 2022.
Hungry lions and leopards may well be responsible for some of the vanishing impalas at the private nature reserve but by no means all. Angry owners of property in the park want the management to explain.
In delivering a new consignment of armoured vehicles to the Ugandan and Kenyan contingents deployed with AMISOM in Somalia, the manufacturer Osprea Logistics, already much in demand in the Sahel, has consolidated its position in Africa's military market.
The UAE usually ignores foreign requests for judicial cooperation regarding its offshore hubs but has bent over backwards to accommodate Angola's investigations into the family of former president José Eduardo dos Santos. By doing so, the Emirates are not only forging stronger ties with Luanda but also earning money-laundering brownie points.
Top Makhzen technocrat and council president of the Casablanca-Settat region, Mustapha Bakkoury, is facing a backlash for his choices as head of the renewable energy agency Masen, a role that had already earned him the wrath of Mohammed VI.
With Libya intending to tighten control of its borders, Algeria is poised to become a preferred route for migrants heading to Europe and has responded by announcing the opening of a new detention centre in the south.
