Following the departure of Canada's GardaWorld in mid-April, all foreign security companies may be forced to leave Libya. The authorities are invoking a 2012 law to revise their contracts and restrict their operations, and they also intend to revive a levy on the industry.
Investigators have been sending out new summons as part of a probe into the alleged embezzlement of IMF funds given to Cameroon to help with its Covid-19 response. Health minister Manaouda Malachie is among those on the list.
Tchad et Sao Tomé-et-Principe... Le programme est chargé en ce mois de mai pour les émissaires de la Communauté économique des Etats de l'Afrique centrale (CEEAC) qui s'apprêtent à vivre une intense semaine diplomatique.
Keen to defend its reputation on the international stage, Algeria wants to keep playing a key role in the implementation of the peace agreement signed in Algiers in 2015 which aimed to bring peace to the north of Mali.
The Ivorian defence minister has discreetly met with several members of the inner circle of the leading political opponent in Paris of late. A move that may be designed to isolate him further from his main allies.
Having launched his new party Convergence in March, Moussa Timbiné, the last speaker of parliament under Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, is gearing up for an international tour to consolidate his support abroad.
Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), the country's second largest lender with assets estimated at $9bn, has hired a lobbyist in the United States.
In Madagascar, the epicentre of the sapphire business, luxury groups like Richemont and LVMH have all made traceability commitments for their coloured stone jewellery, but these are not always respected on the ground.
L'agence de développement allemande GIZ multiplie les financements de contrats de "consulting vert" à destination de pays d'Afrique australe. En avril, elle a débloqué quelque 2,2 millions d'euros pour des projets sur les terrains botswanais et surtout zambien.
The US Department of Commerce has relaxed conditions on Moroccan fertiliser imports, but local phosphate producer The Mosaic Co, the US competitor of the Moroccan market leader OCP, has not had its final say on the matter.
