Five diplomats are discreetly jockeying for the top job at UNITAMS. Sudan's prime minister would like a European to take the post, but Russia and China disagree.
South Africa's Sasol has begun the process of sellling its shares in the Etame Marin production block. Two candidates have already come forward.
The Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo has embarked on a first round of consultations within ECOWAS, and a delegation from the regional body is due in Abidjan shortly.
To gain better control over the development of mobile money, the Central Bank of West African States is planning to make digital financial services compatible in its eight member states.
A potential funder of the rehabilitation of the railway between Dakar and Bamako, the World Bank is supporting the two capitals to structure the project.
Brazafric, the distributor of leading brands of Brazilian agricultural machinery in eastern Africa, has the wind in its sails and is expanding its business on the back of Bolsonaro's new-found interest for the continent.
Sinotrans, the logistics subsidiary of China Merchants, is gearing up for a large-scale deployment in Djibouti having received a significant injection of capital investment.
Following the Cairo visit of the president of the Sudanese transition Abdel Fattah Al Burhan, Egyptian intelligence has opened a military liaison bureau in Khartoum. The stated objective is to prevent any Islamist rearguard action against the transitional government.
Fearing they will pay the price for the demilitarisation of the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea, Tigray's leaders have put numerous obstacles in the way of the Ethiopian army, pushing the federal government to escalate its action.
Sheila Khama, who has served in senior roles at several mining giants and is the aunt of the former Botswanan president Ian Khama, has struck out on her own. In founding her own consultancy firm, SK Resources Consulting, she is hoping to offer her services to African governments as well as to the private sector.
The Mauritian ambassador to Geneva, Usha Dwarka-Canabady, and the embassy's economic advisor, Poonam Mohun, took part in the online Swiss-African Business Circle conference on 23 October.
The weakened physical and electoral state of Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune could work out just fine for his chief of army staff, as long as his term is not cut off too soon.
