In the hope of not totally alienating itself from the United States and the European Union, the regime of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is striving to find an acceptable replacement for its civilian prime minister Abdalla Hamdok, who quit the administration on 2 January.
The Brazilian Cooperation Agency has mostly been active in Latin America and the Caribbean. Now it's working to beef up its technical support for Portuguese-speaking African countries at a time when former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is making a promising bid to get back into office.
Hit hard by plummeting advertising revenues, national broadcaster CRTV contracted an auditor last June to help it cut back its payroll, which had been growing for several years. But the audit has never actually got underway.
The highly successful Israeli broker and close friend to Macky Sall has opened a €300m credit line to help strengthen the Senegalese military over the next three years despite budget difficulties.
A few months ago, the son of the Beninese president embarked on the renovation of Pendjari Safari Lodge, but business there is likely to a take a nosedive following a deadly attack perpetrated on 6 January in the national park.
The Nigerian authorities are dragging their feet on signing the Aje deal and, despite the new petroleum act, doing business in Nigeria remains difficult.
Frenchman Charles Debbasch, a professor of administrative law and architect of tailor-made constitutions in Africa, died on 8 January, though his family had been trying to keep the news under wraps. Until the end of his life Debbasch advised Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé, who welcomed him to Togo shortly after his conviction in France over his management of the Vasarely Foundation.
Ten months after works began, the construction of the Golomoti solar power plant in #Malawi is close to being completed.
The Association of Friends of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic will next month accompany another group of European MPs and journalists to refugee camps in Algeria. The trip comes soon after Brussels painted a rosy picture of the impact in Western Sahara of an EU-Morocco free trade deal.
The bidding process for the construction of the Bizerte Bridge has been reopened. Although Tunisia's Ministry of Equipment and Housing was already examining submitted bids in December 2020, none of them have so far been selected.
After losing its seat on UNESCO's executive board in November, Moroccan diplomacy is working to wipe the slate clean and prepare its return to the UN body.