Phosphates giant OCP has at last found land to build its future fertiliser plant in the heart of Africa's largest market.
Philippe Brett's picaresque career includes stints as a far-right French politician's driver, an organiser of commercial trips to Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and as a bungling hostage negotiator. He has now turned his attention to the building and public works sector in Lubumbashi.
France's Sisco, which has been battling to recover $26m since 2015 from the Cameroonian state for work done to decontaminate military sites, plans to unleash its lawyer on the justice ministry to move the case forward.
Guinea's state-owned Soguipami mining firm has told the purchaser of Blocks 1 and 2 at Simandou iron ore project to halt the exploitation of granite used to build the site's infrastructure. It claims Winning Consortium hasn't paid the taxes due from this activity, which the firm contests.
Engine manufacturer MAN Energy Solutions has won two West African navy contracts. It is to provide engines for three OPV 58 S patrol boats being built by France's Piriou group for the Senegalese navy, as well as for two Israel Shipyards vessels ordered by Ivory Coast.
The Czech Repubic is lobbying in Brussels to get a Czech diplomat appointed as the European Union's next Special Representative for the Sahel.
The well-heeled heir to the Madhvani Group, Nimisha Madhvani, is back in charge of the Ugandan embassy to the nordic countries that she had left in August 2020 following the leak of a audio recording in which she can be heard dishing out leftover embassy money to members of her staff.
To ensure gas produced in southern Africa does not bypass the regional market altogether, the SADC secretariat would like to see the bloc members adhere to a combined strategy.
Telecoms giant Hormuud, which has been active in the sector since 2011, has won Somalia's first mobile banking licence.
The Kasada hotel fund created a new investment vehicle in Mauritius at the end of February with the help of financial services provider Sanne.
With only modest Tunisian reserves to their name and weary of an increasingly difficult political climate, the oil firms have decided to pack their bags and put their assets up for sale.
By storming the Toyota dealership in Benghazi, the special forces commander Mahmoud Al-Werfalli has taken on one of the city's most respected families, the Soussis, supporters of Khalifa Haftar from the beginning.
Four months after losing a site security contract with Entreprise Nationale de Services aux Puits to El Amine Gard, Vigil Grup has won a contract to provide security to the Rhourde El Krouf oilfield.
