The DRC is coming under increasing pressure to comply with a 2018 arbitration award of hundreds of millions of dollars in favour of South African junior Dig Oil over the delayed attribution of Cuvette Central blocks.
Re-elected president of Afreximbank in mid-June, the Nigerian banker Benedict Oramah has decided to retain the existing board of this pan-African banking institution.
Alkache Alhada, who has taken over from Mohamed Bazoum at the strategically important Nigerien interior ministry, is on very good terms with President Mahamadou Issoufou. He also has longstanding links with the "Mr Africa" of the French socialist party, Guy Labertit, and the former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo.
The French major Total has reportedly reached a deal with Société Minière de Boké on storing and supplying the fuel needed for operations at blocks 1 and 2 of the Simandou iron ore project.
Gintautas Barauskas, the low-profile representative of defence firms Aerodyne and EST Ukraine, is threatening to sue Niger for €2.2m while he himself is accused by the ministry of defence for his role in a fake competition scandal.
The Covid-19 crisis has helped the Nigerian billionaire cut costs by squeezing his contractors to the max.
Wan Kuok-koi, a Chinese businessman with a chequered past in the gambling industry, is starting to make his presence felt in Uganda as a champion of Xi Jinping's One Belt, One Road initiative.
Grant Davey went into Lotus Resources' recent extraordinary general meeting a minority investor and came out a board member. He then promptly brought in two former Uranium One executives to join him in the boardroom of the Australian miner.
Dentec Aerospace, which is based in Grand Central Airport in the Midrand area of South Africa, has expanded into Mozambique with the aim of taking advantage of the fast-growing market for the repair and maintenance of militarised aircraft.
Unlike Senegal, which will be a beneficiary of the public debt moratorium announced by the G20 in April, Angola might opt not to apply for the suspension of its public debt repayments.
The French consulting firm's Moroccan branch is drawing up specs for the two Bretton Woods institutions' annual meeting in Marrakesh at the end of next year.
A specialist in traditional Moroccan interiors, Sotcob is taking care of the interior design of the mosque that Morocco has bestowed on Abidjan. The firm has been involved in creating several other Moroccan mosques abroad.
