While the Covid-19 pandemic has exasperated already strained relations between the Trump administration and Beijing, Barack Obama has taken a step in the opposite direction. His foundation quietly sought out the Chinese tech giant Alibaba to work on mutual projects in Africa.
The drilling of a long-awaited well on the Thali block looked to be set to proceed shortly but the epidemic has caused a fresh postponement of the project.
The Cameroonian government's multiple attempts to cut Maurice Kamto off from his financial backers is the latest sign of the growing influence of a diehard government faction led by Samuel Mvondo Ayolo, head of civilian staff at the presidency.
The public sector company is being suffocated by conditions in the Sankofa gas contract which oblige it to pay even for gas it does not use. In 2019, it ended up GNPC paid ENI a total $200m.
The state company responsible for marketing Guinea's national mining output, Soguipami, is hoping a local subsidiary of the omnipresent Monaco Resources will help increase its sales, though the Monegasque firm has had trouble getting its projects off the ground in the country.
Cotonou is still waiting on the Norwegian firm Vissim to deliver its maritime surveillance system, one that could help offshore oil operators in the region, while crime in the Gulf of Guinea shows no signs of abating.
The European diplomatic corps is working closely with NGOs on an airlift operation to help several African capitals grappling with the coronavirus crisis.
The global Covid-19 pandemic has forced the Kenyan authorities to delay a call for tenders for the refurbishment of one of the two terminals at the Nairobi airport.
Both Jesuits and FJKM Protestants have dismissed the Malagasy president's miraculous herbal remedy, a cure he is hoping will help him win back popularity.
The Leader Amne group owned by FLN senator for Ouargla Mohamed Madani Mouissa has won the Din. 129m contract to provide security at the GR5 station at Hassi R'mel. Secur Group, which has links with the Kouninef brothers, was taken off the contract in March.
Giuseppe Conte's governnment signed off one last contract with the Italian firm before the European integrated border and migration management in Libya fund closes in June.
