President Tshisekedi has a team of nine special advisors he likes to call on. Playing on rivalries among the members of Joseph Kabila's Front Commun pour le Congo, some have taken charge of state matters even if that means encroaching on the portfolios of the ministers concerned.
Industrial action over back pay by two companies sheds harsh light on the government's failings.
To pressure the Nigerian authorities into including greater incentives for investors in the new petroleum bill, the oil companies present in the country have put their faith in the lobbying clout of their most influential figure:
On the eve of the elections that will determine who runs the African Union for the next four years, Nigeria and Rwanda are expected to secure key roles.
An Equatorial Guinean Ministry of Defence delegation was given a grand ceremonial welcome by the organisers of the Aero India 2021 aerospace and defence exhibition, which opened in Bangalore on 3 February.
If Mohamed Bazoum, the candidate of the Parti Nigérien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme (PNDS) of outgoing President Mahamadou Issoufou, wins the second round of the presidential election against Mahamane Ousmane on 21 February, he intends to turn Niger into an electricty-exporting country.
Severing ties with his predecessor Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has pushed himself to the forefront of regional diplomacy in less than two years. Now Saudia Arabia and the UAE's strategic ally in the Sahel, Mauritania may soon normalise relations with Qatar.
Having spent part of his childhood as a refugee on the shores of the Gulf of Tadjoura, the Somali-born athlete Mo Farah feels a certain debt towards Djibouti and the regime has been quick to use the runner for PR purposes.
Norwegian multi-millionaire Peter Smedvig and South African art collector Chris von Christierson recently bought the Kabanga Nickel project in Tanzania, along with their partner Keith Liddell. The acquisition is the latest of their investments in battery metals.
The involvement of the extremely well-connected Services et transports aériens in the transporting of 73.5 kg of gold to South Africa has embarrassed the Madagascan government, which has asked its civil aviation authority to shut down the airline.
Spearheaded by the UK's Pensana Rare Earths, the Longonjo neodymium-praseodymium project is starting to take shape, with production scheduled to begin in 2022. President João Lourenço has high hopes for this project, which he believes could become a flagship achievement of his mining reforms.
The British Arab Commercial Bank, the British wholesale banking arm of state-owned Libyan Foreign Bank, has recruited both its CEO and its anti-money laundering chief from the banking giant HSBC.
The two constituencies representing French expatriates in Africa have awakened appetites in President Emmanuel Macron's LREM party. The outgoing deputies, M'jid el-Guerrab and Amélia Lakrafi, are already working hard to keep their seats.
The American engineering firm Aecom is swapping its military fatigues for the apparel of Tunisian farmers.
