A UN Security Council meeting on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is being held in New York this Thursday, at Tunisia's request. Egypt is pushing hard for the adoption of a resolution on the issue, despite a lack of consensus between the council's African members.
The deal between the two oil groups may not go smoothly without a small gesture from the US major to the public treasury.
The winding up of the late Congolese lawyer Emery Mukendi's law firm has triggered a battle both in and out of court in the US and the DRC between his family and Elite Law Firm, an entity founded by several of his former partners.
Having fallen from grace just like their mentor Joseph Kabila, who owns vast swathes of farmland throughout the country, several senior members of the ex-president's regime have been able to fall back on their investments in agriculture.
On 8 July, International Monetary Fund (IMF) executive director for Congo Aivo Handriatiana Andrianarivelo, will end a 6-day trip to Brazzaville, only days before the institution launches a remote mission for Congo from 14 to 21 July.
The Turkish construction specialist Form Insaat has landed a role as a service provider for the construction of Bamako's new military hospital.
Richard Griffiths from US law firm Arent Fox accompanied his client, the Qatari vice prime minister Al Kuwari, to Burundi's independence day celebrations on 1 July. Griffiths and his law firm are already very well established in Rwanda and Zimbabwe.
Tomorrow, South Sudan turns ten. President Salva Kiir is grasping to hold onto his parliamentary majority as a new assembly is expected to be sworn in.
Influential businessman and close presidential adviser Maminiaina Ravatomanga and his family are increasingly involved in legal action in Paris. French lawyer William Bourdon is one of their regular adversaries.
As riots against King Mswati III rage on, Botswana's Mokgweetsi Masisi, who will head SADC's security arm until August, is trying to show a proactive attitude. Not all his neighbours share his approach.
Angola's state diamond company Endiama and RGS Holdings, run by the Gulamo family, close to Mozambican president Nyusi's party, are launching a massive agricultural development project in the Lundas provinces, the bastion of the country's diamond industry.
After receiving an offer from Albayrak, the Misrata Free Zone - the main maritime entry into the Libyan market - has signed an agreement with another Turkish industrial leader Yildirim.
The head of Morocco's Philharmonic Orchestra, who also owns the Afma insurance brokerage and Quick fast-food outlets, is taking over the technical management of what's set to be Africa's largest theatre, a facility close to Mohammed VI's heart.
In November, the French city of Marseille will host the next edition of the Sommet des deux rives summit, which brings together ten states from the southern and northern shores of the Mediterranean.
