Israeli businessman Dan Gertler, who is not on good terms with the US authorities and has lost his protectors in Tel Aviv, remains a player in DRC whom the Tshisekedi administration is reluctant to push out.
Breaking news published on 10/09/21 at 12:00 p.m. - The very strategic visit, first scheduled on July, of Chad's transition leader Mahamat Idriss Déby to Qatar will take place this weekend following two months of negotiations.
The arrival of a military junta in Conakry opens a new stage, the outcome of which remains uncertain, in the saga of the 2019 agreement between Beny Steinmetz's group and Alpha Condé over the Simandou and Zogota iron ore projects.
Ahead of the diplomatic mission dispatched by ECOWAS to Conakry on September 10, secret negotiations over the departure of Guinea's president Alpha Condé, who is being held by the coup leaders, have been taking place.
Ahead of November's summit of French-speaking states in Tunisia, Louise Mushikiwabo, the secretary general of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), will lead a 70-strong economic and trade delegation on a trip to Hanoi.
Monaco Resources Group (MRG) is counting on an official visit by Monaco's government to Antwerp at the end of September to reassure its Belgian creditors and partners on the situation in Guinea, where MRG has a strong presence.
Four months after opening the port of Berbera in Somaliland, DP World's chairman, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, tasked his teams to conduct a study on Chinese activism in the ports of the Horn of Africa.
The Ugandan president is worried Rwanda will butt in as a rampart against the Islamic insurgency in northeastern DRC, as it did in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado gas province.
By equipping the Ugandan army's mountain brigades, which are in great demand on the DRC border, the French company Marck & Balsan is gaining a firm foothold in Uganda. The company enjoys the support of Paris and of bilateral military cooperation initiatives.
The speedy start of Rwandan army operations in Cabo Delgado has finally enabled Mozambique to reclaim the territories it had lost. The government's other military partners were not given the same opportunities to bring their troops into the conflict so quickly, however, and are struggling to establish contact with Mozambican army command structure which has been entirely reorganised by Filipe Nyusi.
Husband and wife Len Dimbungu and Mpho Dimbungu, diamond industry veterans and highly successful entrepreneurs in Gaborone, have just founded a new mining company.
Saadi Gaddafi was released from prison partly thanks to the efforts of Misrata and its Turkish sponsor, who are keen to win over the Gaddafi camp. Their aim is to forge a common front against eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar, who is courting the nostalgic followers of the deposed "Guide".
A first batch of Turkish Anka-S drones is expected to be delivered next week to Tunis. The delivery will take place despite the fact Turkey was one of the few countries to have explicitly condemned President Kaïs Saïed's "constitutional" coup.
