For several weeks, Russian diplomats all over Africa have been using all the means at their disposal to justify their country's invasion of Ukraine and limit its impact on Russia's interests on the continent.
Morrow Sodali, a consultancy specialising in managing hostile takeovers and disgruntled shareholders, has recently supported several transactions involving mines in Africa.
Despite notable progress, the peace talks between Chad's armed political groups and the N'Djamena government is due for further delays. The reconciliation process to be held in Doha last week was postponed.
Swiss-Romanian businessman Nicolae Bogdan Buzaianu, who is energetically courting officials in the Central African Republic, is looking beyond timber into generating cryptocurrency and setting up bitcoin mining centres in the country.
While Rwandan Valentine Rugwabiza has just been appointed head of the UN mission in CAR (MINUSCA), replacing the Senegalese diplomat Mankeur Ndiaye, another position within the UN operation has also attracted interest in recent weeks:
Italian defence giant Leonardo, already well known in Nigeria, has offered its AW109 light attack helicopters to the land forces. But the competition is going to be tough in the face of Airbus, India's HAL and Turkey's TAI.
Oryx Energies seems determined to make a fresh offer in the round of tenders scheduled for 21 March for the supply of fuel to Mauritania, despite Nouakchott just reporting that all tenders on 6 January were unsuccessful and relations with the country's authorities remaining complicated.
Senegal's ANER renewable energy agency, whose boss Djiby Ndiaye had announced a vast solar street lighting project in eight regions, will have to review its plans after the public procurement regulator rejected its plan to use a direct agreement contract.
Direct clashes between federal troops and the TDF have subsided. Meanwhile, African Union envoy Obasanjo is staffing up a mediation team that has been stalling for months.
Zimbabwe's private coal champion, Makomo Resources, will soon see its creditors meet for the first time since it was placed in receivership last November, while Chinese businesses already have their eye on its concessions.
Doutor Urgência, a medical care service currently serving mainly oil firm expatriates, has signed a deal with national airline Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique to treat passengers who fall ill during a flight.
A cargo ship belonging to Algerian state-owned CNAN Med that was recently banned from European waters, has been reassigned to serve Mauritania. The route was until now operated by an association of two private firms.
Sent to Ukraine for maintenance 10 years ago, the last Antonov An-124 held by the Libyan state is in danger of being destroyed in the battle for control of Kyiv.