The head of French military intelligence, Jacques Langlade de Montgros, is due in Kigali in the near future to further promote intelligence cooperation between the two countries. Underway since 2021, this rapprochement has encountered a certain degree of resistance on the French side.
Under pressure from international financial institutions, Congolese hydrocarbons minister Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua has begun reorganising his administration. This represents a logistical challenge for an ageing institution that is overpopulated with advisers, directors and attachés, but it should not cause a radical change in the balance of power in the sector, which is largely decided outside the ministry.
A delegation led by a senior Tanzanian officer recently met in Rwanda with Jean-Marie Runiga, the leader of a dissident branch of the M23, on behalf of International Conference on the Great Lakes Region.
The former speaker of the Ivorian parliament has been in Dubai for several weeks, where he has been engaging in quiet diplomacy. Though Ouattara is aware of his opponent's whereabouts, he is not expected to seek Soro's extradition.
The Turkish defence industry is upping the pace in Nigeria, where negotiations with the high command of the Nigerian Air Force under Air Marshal Isiaka Oladayo Amao are in full flow.
On 1 November, the American-Canadian mining tycoon Robert Friedland went ahead with the expected reshuffle of his management team for the project at mount Nimba in Guinea.
Still suspended from the African Union, the Sudanese authorities want to convince the Peace and Security Council of their good faith and hope that their suspension can be lifted. However, for now the latter remains a distant possibility.
The potential dredging of the River Naam, a tributary of the White Nile, is continuing to provoke tensions among Sudan's political class. Egypt wants to go ahead with the project despite the risks to the environment.
Lobbyists for the African Energy Chamber have been working towards a rapprochement with their competitor, the London-based events group Hyve. But reconciliation between the organisers of the two rival Cape Town powwows still seems a long way off.
Parliament won't debate a new media bill until December, but Algeria's politically and financially stifled press is already eager to see the text.
Less than three weeks from the Organisation internationale de la francophonie (OIF) summit on the Tunisian island of Djerba, France's president Emmanuel Macron has still not definitely confirmed his attendance.
The European Union (EU) plans to release €25m of additional funds to help Tunisia reduce its dependence on cereal imports.
