McCroft-Premium Tobacco Group, owned by a major political player in Kosovo, is looking for distributors in Libya, despite the market being saturated with fakes.
Despite Western concerns over Russia's growing influence in Bangui, the Central African leader had no qualms about taking the private jet of the oligarch Yevgeni Prigozhin to the recent Saint Petersburg business forum.
An International Monetary Fund team left Gabon early this week after a long annual consultation mission during which it laid out its conditions for granting the country a new loan programme. They include the scrapping of numerous tax and customs exemption regimes, and in particular one in place for the Nkok special economic zone.
Major talks are set to begin soon between China's state-owned CNPC and the new government in Niamey.
The South African company plans to create a new rail link between Guinea and Liberia, in line with the two countries' strategy. But there is already a line in place, operated by ArcelorMittal.
With Portugal considering greater engagement with the Sahel, responsibility for this vast region is in the hands of a select few based in Lisbon and Dakar.
In early June, Foxtrot International (Bouygues) was able to begin operations at its CI-27 block thanks to the Sapura Berani platform supplied by Sapura Energy. The French major Total also recently awarded a service contract to the American drilling company Valaris.
After a government reshuffle in May, the Djiboutian president is now renewing his diplomatic staff.
The Botswana Copperbelt, buoyed by the recent surge in copper prices, is on track to see 2021 become a milestone for the country's mining industry, which is underdeveloped despite the large quantities of ore in its subsoil.
French state engineering firm Egis is currently in negotiations to install toll booths on several main roads built by China in Mozambique.
The African Development Bank's infrastructure platform has opened a new private fund to attract Africa's large institutional investors.
On the back foot in the face of Rabat's aggressive diplomacy and the prospect of security cooperation being curtailed, the German chancellor Angela Merkel and the Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez have been actively seeking to defuse tensions.
After the costly concentrated solar power station in Ouarzazate, which led to a legal investigation into CEO Mustapha Bakkoury, the Masen solar power agency has moved onto photovoltaic solar panels. But candidates for Noor PV II are not convinced.
