The 1970s video game pioneer, Atari, is looking for a way into the African market but through a different sector: online gambling.
In France, Victor Fotso's heirs have delayed disclosing the accounts of the companies that control the family's real estate holdings, while in Cameroon, investigators have searched the offices of the notary who handled the oligarch's will.
The revelation in our 24 February edition of the planned sale of 50% of Chadian company SHT's shares in the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline has been denied by SHT's managing director. President Déby had sought at all costs to keep the plan secret before launching his re-election campaign.
The World Bank's mediation body in January approved a document that will enable talks to begin on the dispute over compensation paid by Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée to people living near its huge Sangaredi mine.
In mid-February the Emirati crown prince assured G5 Sahel heads of state that he would disburse the final two-thirds of his pledge announced with great fanfare in December 2017. To date, only €10m of a promised €30m have been transferred to the Sahelian alliance.
As the country continues to grapple with Covid-19, President Muhammadu Buhari has been hoping to generate cash from a marginal field bid that looks at last about to close. The Department of Petroleum Resources has sent the first letters to inform the succesful bidders of its choice.
Since prime minister Hamed Bakayoko was evacuated to France on 18 February, his allies and associates have been phoning their contacts frantically to try to get news of him. The Ivorian presidency delayed making announcements to avoid disrupting the parliamentary election count but has now appointed two key presidency figures to take care of pressing government business.
An appeal, the last obstacle standing in the way of the construction of the Rosso Bridge, which will span the Senegal River separating Senegal from Mauritania by the town of Rosso, has been rejected.
Mauritius Commercial Bank (MCB) is hoping to open a representative office in Nigeria in the course of the next six months.
American-Emirati armoured vehicle builder The Armored Group (TAG) has sent a batch of 16 armoured vehicles for use by EUCAP Somalia, the European Union police and maritime security support mission in the country.
Par un décret signé le 7 février, le président Ismaïl Omar Guelleh a créé la société commerciale Red Sea Drilling Company, qui vise à soutenir les ambitions du pays dans la géothermie - et plus particulièrement sur le site du lac d'Assal, dans le centre de Djibouti.
March looks set to be a difficult month for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is in an increasingly precarious position: US sanctions have been extended and his vice president has had to resign amid a sex scandal.
Abdelhamid Dabaiba's appointment as head of the new interim government is great news for central bank governor Al Seddik Omar Al Kabir, who has weathered many storms to keep his seat.
French politician Rama Yade is now a lecturer at the Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique, founded by Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP).
