Thrown back into the limelight by a recent report, Banco Sol's deep and long-standing ties with President João Lourenço's party are weighing heavily on the financial institution's attempts to brand itself as just an ordinary bank.
Executives from the Australian mining giant Fortescue have flown into the Congolese capital to discuss the modalities of a deal to generate a total 70 gigawatts of electricity in the country. Their trip comes as President Félix Tshisekedi prepares to choose between the various bidders for the Grand Inga project.
Recruited as a consultant by Gabon last spring, ex-Veolia CEO Henri Proglio is about to complete his audit of Société d'énergie et d'eau du Gabon (SEEG).
Cameroon has hired consultancy Drake & Bart to design an institutional framework that would help wean the country off World Bank help in managing its mining cadastre.
UK firm Surestream is betting on the political vacuum in the DRC to take over the unexploited oil block.
The Portuguese construction company Mota-Engil has reached a financial arrangement with its French and South African partners Egis, Stoa Infra & Energy and AIIM, who have found themselves frozen out of the contract to upgrade the Accra-Tema highway.
The Italian defence contractor Leonardo is poised to deliver as many as 24 Aermacchi M-346 training aircraft to the Nigerian Air Force. These planes are part of a drive to modernise the NAF, headed by Isiaka Oladayo Amao.
The businessman and political leader Gideon Moi, who has rallied to the Kenyatta camp, intends to have a say in the choice of the new boss of the Kenya Ports Authority.
Negotiations between South Sudan's government and remaining rebel groups have resumed in Kenya. But all parties are beset by internal tensions that render the outcome of the talks uncertain.
Though weakened, president Abdelmadjid Tebboune is trying, somewhat belatedly, to take back control of the country's intelligence services in order to wield more influence over the reshuffle of the political deck.
On 16 March, Libya's action to contest the arbitration ruling ordering it to pay out nearly €50m to the Turkish construction firm Cengiz will be considered by the French courts.
Following a seven-month spell as the technical director of Inwi, the telecommunication operator owned by Al Mada, Mohamed Ali Chouchane has created his own consultancy Innovcity, based in Casablanca.
