Africa Intelligence lifts the veil on the private security companies currently operating in the eastern DRC city of Goma. There are dozens of former Soviet soldiers present, as well as a French businessman and a Romanian veteran of the French Foreign Legion.
Chad's foreign affairs ministry has for several weeks been preparing its candidacy for the head of ASECNA (Agency for the Safety of Air Navigation in Africa and Madagascar).
The state-owned French investment bank Bpifrance is working on the final details of a €198m contract that construction firm Eiffage won last month to build regional university hospitals in four towns in Guinea.
Telecomms giant MTN has mandated the South African bank Absa for the sale of some of its smaller operations in Africa. The financial services company has already started evaluating several of these assets.
An Anglo-Sudanese company has hired Crowe to promote its interests with the US administration and Congress. The move comes shortly after the signing of a framework agreement between Sudan's military junta and part of the civilian opposition.
There should not be no further obstacle to Comoros presiding over the pan-African organisation as of next month.
The French and German foreign ministers are due in Addis in a week's time for talks with the Ethiopian government. Paris and Berlin are doing their best to adopt a common diplomatic stance in the region.
The Australian firm's boss Tim Carstens is hopeful that he will soon be allowed to start mining the Toliara Sands deposit in Ranobe, where operations have been suspended for over three years.
Based in Doha for over a decade, the Franco-Algerian lawyer may turn out to be an unexpected link in the chain between the PSG spying affair and the 'Qatargate' affair at the European parliament. The figure at the centre of the Paris football club inquiry, the lobbyist Tayeb Benabderrahmane, recently launched legal action against him in Algeria, while Belgian investigators want to question him about his links to the MEP scandal.
