Judith Suminwa Tuluka's government is caught up in a draft agreement signed in 2023 with the South African junior that was meant to put an end to a long legal dispute.
The Congolese hydrocarbon ministry has commissioned two companies to carry out detailed audits of Franco-British energy company Perenco's oil business in the country. These reports should shed light on the firm's actual oil production, as well as its environmental impact.
Dozens of DR Congo nationals suspected of planning to destabilise their country were picked up and brought home from neighbouring Zambia, in an October operation greenlit by Lusaka.
President Bola Tinubu is looking to carve out a role for Nigeria as a mediator in the Sudan peace process. Abuja, which has not been involved in previous efforts to resolve the bloody conflict, is now seeking to rally international support towards this goal.
William Bol Gai Deng, a US-based South Sudanese former refugee, has hired MacDonnell Ulsch Cyber Advisory lobby firm to help him achieve his long-held ambition to become president of his homeland.
Anglo American Platinum has begun consultations with its South African employees on a plan to restructure in Johannesburg and envisages cutting some 200 jobs.
The eastern Libyan strongman was caught unawares by the abrupt end of the Baathist regime in Syria. The two families had been forging ever closer ties for years, while also counting on their shared friend, Russia.
After a first trip to Oran in September 2023, the former commander-in-chief of Russia's aerospace forces has now settled in Algiers, where he is acting as an informal ambassador pending the appointment of an official diplomat by Moscow.