Angola is determined to defend its interests in its offshore oil dispute with neighbouring DRC and is counting on the well-connected Antonio Garcia Miala, brother of the intelligence chief.
The South African conservation giant recently obtained certification to sell carbon credits backed by the reserve.
The UN special representative for West Africa and the Sahel, Mozambique's Leonardo Santos Simao, is booked to travel to Moscow in the first quarter of this year. He has a meeting with the Russian foreign ministry to discuss the situation in the Sahel.
With profits continuing to shrink, the Aga Khan's media company is planning layoffs across the board.
Kenya's oil minister has approached the British oil company about the possibility of processing future crude from the Turkana fields to supply domestic consumption. However, the project promises to be complex and costly.
Prior to Sarah Rabearisoa's election in late December to head the office of the African Women Leaders Network, it was former foreign affairs minister Béatrice Attalah who had been approached by the UNDP's Chief Technical Advisor.
The group owned by Morocco's ultra-rich Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch has launched Saha Gaz, a firm that aims to import and export liquefied petroleum gas and to manage the distribution of liquefied natural gas.
A tribunal has just been created to hear the dispute between three Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) group companies and the Algerian state at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
