Mali's top boss Mamadou Sinsy Coulibaly is going all out to pressure President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to free anti-corruption campaigner Clément Dembélé.
The question on everyone's lips in African oil capitals is whether firms should be offered fresh incentives to deter them from packing their bags for good during the heath crisis.
To ease congestion in Conakry, which is lacking transport infrastructure, the Agence Française de Développement is looking into a project to increase passenger numbers on the Conakry Express.
The two companies are competing with five other concerns for the contract to establish Ivory Coast's future urban transport administration.
Nexeya and Leonardo are tipped to win the contract to equip and arm three Piriou offshore patrol vessels destined for Dakar but the change in chief of naval staff could restack their odds.
Relations continue to sour between Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's government and Australian firm Armour Energy.
As it proceeds with a wide-ranging reform of the Angolan mining sector, in which diamonds are the main component, President João Lourenço's government is thought to be negotiating with precious stones expert Peter Meeus to get him to help it fine-tune its strategy.
Portuguese brewer Super Bock has stopped doing business in the Portuguese-speaking states that have been its key markets in Africa to focus on China.
Thirty-one years after the expropriation of Banque Franco-Tunisienne (BFT), the bank's former owner ABCI Investments should soon have closure on its arbitration against the Tunisian government, which is facing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
The European naval operation IRINI is still incapable of stopping arms from entering Libya, the very reason it was set up.
The Cevital boss is in the process of relaunching his agricultural projects in the south of the country. Successive governments have thrown spanners in his works since 2012. But in exchange for his quitting the political stage, Issad Rebrab has returned to the good graces of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune.