In Gaborone, the government of Mokgweetsi Masisi is hoping to capitalise on the sale of the assets of the former public copper-nickel-cobalt flagship BCL to promote job creation, which until now has been touted as the main weakness of its economic programme.
Germany has been highly critical in recent years of N'Djamena and the Déby regime, but in late September it shifted its foreign policy to supporting the transition process, and Angela Merkel has even spoken by telephone with Mahamat Idriss Déby.
Breaking news published on 06/10/21 at 7.30 pm - Oil trader Lucien Ebata was detained this morning (6 October) at Paris's Le Bourget airport in possession of a large quantity of cash.
On 8 October, a hearing over a contested increase in capital by Société des bauxites de Guinée, majority-owned by Monaco Resources, will take place.
Lacking an official status since the downfall of Blaise Compaoré in Burkina Faso in 2014, the desert fox Mustafa Chafi has returned to the limelight in Niger where he is leveraging his ties with regional leaders.
Deutsche Bank plans to finance a series of infrastructure projects in the new Senegalese city of Diamniadio, which is being built to ease population pressure on the capital, Dakar.
The Chinese major hopes to start construction of the infrastructure for the oilfield in 2022.
The African Union and the Somali government have until the end of December to agree on the shape of the pan-African organisation's next mission in Somalia.
Photos of the Rwandan army and its deployment to Mozambique have been on the front page for weeks and Rwanda's armed forces awant new weapons.
Gregorio Leão is the main defendant in the so-called "hidden loans" trial, alongside the son of former president Armando Guebuza. The former intelligence chief has hired legal heavyweights to conduct his defence.
TotalEnergies will hold a meeting with its Mozambican partners on the Mozambique LNG liquefaction project on October 7 in Pemba, Cabo Delgado province's capital.
The King of Morocco may leave several of his embassies without ambassadors, as a sign that diplomatic tensions still abound.
Despite having just hired two consultants, the American lobbyists Lanny Davis and Bob Livingston have given up representing the military commander Khalifa Haftar, who is now a candidate in the Libyan presidential election.
