Metalcorp has sold its majority stake in Société des Bauxites de Guinée without informing its co-shareholders. This sale occurred only months after Metalcorp, a highly indebted subsidiary of Monaco Resources Group, was discreetly taken out of the conglomerate.
The failure of negotiations at the International Seabed Authority to produce an agreement on deep-sea mining rules has paved the way for exploration outside any legal framework. An African coalition hopes to influence the outcome of the talks to ensure the continent can benefit from these potential new riches.
Ali Bongo's final oil minister, Vincent de Paul Massassa, is being investigated by the Gabonese intelligence services. It's a situation that is worrying some oil operators in the country.
Since August, the head of the French Forces in the Sahel and the chief of staff of Niger's army, Moussa Salaou Barmou, have been holding confidential talks about how the first French troops might be withdrawn.
Nigeria and Korea National Oil Corp (KNOC) have each picked an arbitrator to represent them before ICSID in the long-running dispute over the OLP 321 and 323 oil fields.
Though most of the fighting is in Khartoum and Darfur, Sudan's farms are reeling from the consequences of the conflict, with projected losses of $1.3bn putting the country at risk of famine.
A few weeks after getting a new director, Kenya's National Social Security Fund is tackling a mountain of unpaid contributions in several counties. Most of the missing millions is owed by state entities.
Although President Emmerson Mnangagwa was returned to office after last month's general elections, several major mining players in his party were not so lucky. Gold baron Scott Sakupwanya and parliamentary mining committee chair Edmond Mkaratigwa were among those voters rejected.
The controversial meeting between Libyan Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush and her Israeli counterpart was intended to be a preamble to an encounter between Libyan and Israeli Prime Ministers Abdelhamid Dabaiba and Benjamin Netanyahu.
The director of communications in the president's office is a key player in the distribution of advertising by the government agency in support of the press.