As a rival project takes shape in Paris, the Australian miner Fortescue is going all out to secure the lead role in the development of mega-dams on the River Congo.
On standby for several years, the development of the Etinde permit, in which Perenco wishes to acquire New Age's 37.5% stake, could finally result in gas being delivered to the Cameroonian coast or Equatorial Guinea's liquefaction plant.
In negotiations with Kinshasa to set up in the DRC, the investment fund Arise is deliberating over the location and size of its two industrial and logistics platforms, one dedicated to wood processing and the other to agribusiness.
Three small non-producing oil states in the Gulf of Guinea are desperately - but so far vainly - trying to develop their offshore blocks. Even amid dwindling investment in exploration, they dream of an oil and gas future like Namibia's.
As French citizens abroad prepare to vote in the second round of the French parliamentary elections, a number of lobbyists and PR execs with good connections within Africa's presidential palaces are working hard alongside the remaining candidates.
Pape Diop, the former mayor of Dakar from 2002 to 2009 and president of the Senegalese National Assembly under then President Abdoulaye Wade, has been in Paris since the beginning of June.
In appointing two new members to his private office, the Ethiopian prime minister has reshuffled the personnel at the infrastructure ministry. He has also appointed a new auditor general, a key post that had been vacant since 2021.
Producers and traders of the gemstone that is only found in a small pocket of Tanzanian soil are increasingly irate about year-old rule changes that curtail their activities.
Tanzanian politicians, eager to identify the underlying causes of the huge delays to the Nyerere Dam project and to pinpoint responsibility, are pushing for the creation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry.
A Russian businessman with good contacts in Maputo has gone into partnership with the secretary-general of the FRELIMO veterans association and the godson of former president Armando Guebuza to mine precious stones in Cabo Delgado province.
With its new subsidiary Hydropipes, the prime minister's Akwa holding company wants to build the oil pipelines at the port of Jorf Lasfar, where several fuel depots are being built or extended. And it is even hoping to manage the facilities.
The war in Ukraine has complicated the appointment of a new UN special representative in Libya, but German diplomat Christian Buck looks like he is in with a strong chance after getting Washington's support. Stephanie Williams is meanwhile due to leave her post as Antonio Guterres' special adviser on Libya at the end of June.
