From Bangui to Maputo, Paul Kagame has turned Rwanda's armed forces into a powerful tool of his African diplomacy, wielded adeptly by his army commander Jean-Bosco Kazura and his police chief Dan Munyuza.
Omar Denis Junior Bongo Ondimba accompanies his grandfather, Congolese President Denis Sassou NGuesso, on every trip. Next up, the Paris Peace Forum, which begins on 11 November.
The Westminster Group subsidiary, Westminster Aviation Security Services, which specialises in airport perimeter security and passenger screening, is at an advanced stage of talks with the Central African government.
Although EU relations with Mali have been strained by the junta's decision to cosy up to Moscow, Madrid is going ahead with its programme to equip gendarmes in Mali and elsewhere in the Sahel.
The Australian mining and petroleum community in West Africa is keeping a close eye on the growing Russian influence in the region.
The Bouygues boss has been in Ivory Coast for the past week as the French conglomerate clears the last hurdles before launching two major projects in the country.
A few weeks ago, Equatorial Guinea's oil minister Gabriel Obiang Lima initiated the drafting of new legislation covering the hydrocarbons sector in the hope of winning investors back.
Tanzania's state-owned electricity company Tanzania Electric Supply Co is trying to get the 400kV, 350km transmission line project between Chalinze and Dodoma underway.
The former deputy governor of the diamond province of Lunda Sul, Domingos Kajama, has set up a new mining company with the Matias family and a senior civil servant.
Best known as a music producer, Emmerson Tanaka Mnangagwa, one of the Zimbabwean president's sons, travelled with several associates as part of the big Zimbabwean delegation which went to Glasgow for COP26. His aim was to promote his new company, Carbcred.
Foreign jurists and consultants are helping Tunisia to negotiate international mechanisms for carbon offsetting and clean development at the UN climate change conference. The British startup Ecofye is also part of the mix.
Eight MPs from the House of Representatives in Tobruk are taking an offcial visit to Turkey. With elections just over a month away, this visit shows the east's desire to improve relations.
