Already engaged in innumerable court cases and arbitration battles, the smallest details of which are dutifully publicized by their respective PR teams, the family of ex-president dos Santos and the Angolan state are also fighting another less public, much less procedural battle.
Feeling targetted by certain Rwandan activities, the Burundi secret services have hired UAE security systems specialist Al Hamra to examine the use of a mobile phone tracking system.
With Ghana in the running for a UN Security Council seat, new military chief Seth Amoama has an ace up his sleeve in the game of military diplomacy: his country's blue helmets.
The CEDS, a private school in Paris run by the consultant Florence Gabay, is fishing for contracts from African foreign ministries to train their diplomats. She is also boosting her networks in African presidents' offices and reaching out as far as China.
The American diplomat, already familiar with the Horn of Africa, takes office as tension mounts between Washington and Addis Ababa.
The Chinese conglomerate CNMC and private security magnate Erik Prince have signed a partnership to facilitate the transport of ore extracted in the DRC-Zambia Copperbelt to the Angolan port of Lobito via a corridor that is not yet fully operational.
The Covid-19 pandemic and the uprising in Cabo Delgado have prompted most operators to revise their medium-term plans. Their main financial partner, Standard Bank, reckons the delays will last between several months and several years.
Namibia's planned vast seawater desalination plant, that could also supply Botswana, has been under quiet negotiation since 2016. The project finally seems to have found an investor. The disclosure of Russian oligarch Rashid Sardarov's name resulted from a rare communication mishap between the presidents of the two neighbouring states.
The liberalisation of cannabis cultivation, which was dismissed as a regional aberration when it was proposed by Rif region leaders such as former governor Ilyas el Omari, has been miraculously turned into a formula for industrial revolution and social development for northern Morocco.
The RND member of parliament for Biskra is now the sole shareholder of Marais Algérie, a sub-contractor for Algérie Télécom and other operators.
TV news channel Euronews is not in great shape, particularly after the failed sale of Africanews. The European Commission plans to reduce its subsidy and the various loans from majority stakeholder Naguib Sawiris have not been enough to make the company self-sufficient.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex has postponed plans to travel to Tunis to attend the Franco-Tunisian Cooperation Council because of the Covd pandemic.
