The UN mission is struggling to plan its future as it prepares to provide security for a packed election calendar, including presidential polls. Its efforts are complicated by tensions between mission chief Valentine Rugwabiza and electoral division head Arsène Gbaguidi.
A delegation from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria arrived in Cameroon on 7 April to investigate several cases of mismanagement of funds granted to Yaoundé and mainly aimed at helping the country tackle Covid-19.
Created at the beginning of the year, the Russian foreign ministry's Department for Partnership with Africa aims to strengthen ties with the continent's main regional organisations, notably the Alliance of Sahel States.
The arrival of Rouge Mining is raising eyebrows in the Guinean copper ore industry. The group has succeeded in obtaining a three-year contract to mine an area in the Télimélé prefecture.
The capital of North Darfur, a Sudanese Armed Forces stronghold in the west of the country, is under bombardment by the Rapid Support Forces. Militias allied with the SAF are awaiting reinforcements from Khartoum, which are slow to arrive.
Former deputy minister of finance and acute connaisseur of the mining sector, Mcebisi Jonas has a few cards up his sleeves, including some useful connections in the US capital.
In the coming weeks, a dozen Boeings will join the 50 or so planes operated by the national airline, which has, in particular, been negotiating with Qatar Airways.
Embassies abolished, chargés d'affaires and ambassadors indefinitely in post, legal cases, absence of a foreign minister... Disorder reigns in the not-so-hushed corridors of the North African country's chancelleries.