Dig Oil's founder managed to infiltrate the Congolese head of state's entourage and steer its negotiations with his company.
Criticised in his home country and by regulation authorities for his cryptocurrency activities, Cameroonian businessman Emile Parfait Simb is looking for a fresh start in business aviation in Central African Republic.
One of the tasks of the new Congolese government is to seal a deal with the state-owned French firm over the installation of a multi-document platform that can print the country's biometric passports and identity cards and may later produce biometric driving licences.
Experts from ANSER, the brand new national electrification and rural energy services agency, are this year due to visit the western provinces of Kwango, Kwilu and Mai-Ndombe, as well as the outskirts of Kinshasa.
Tekever is about to seal a deal with the Senegalese fishing ministry to secure its waters. With the help of French security contractors, the company is also reaching out to several other African countries.
Bravura, the oil magnate's mining branch, is establishing itself in mineral-rich Guinea, with a particular focus on its iron.
Mozambique's opposition MDM party was already working on a new constitution a few days before the death in February of its charismatic leader, Daviz Simango. The party is now looking for new leaders and is making major decisions about its future.
As the general elections looms, the president has rallied his troops to try and capture more foreign investment in the country's extractive industry and other core sectors.
The Italian major's two recent discoveries in Egypt and Angola were made thanks to wells drilled near existing infrastructure, a low-cost way of increasing output.
Despite being put in charge of Libya's diplomatic service, Najla al-Mangoush finds herself somewhat sidelined and caught up in turf wars.
Military cooperation between France and Algeria is at a standstill after the French PM Jean Castex cancelled his visit to Algiers planned on 10 April, thus exasperating his counterpart Abdelaziz Djerad.
The Tunisian head of state has only seven months left to organise the 50th anniversary of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, an event that has been far from a prime concern of his. Ongoing health restrictions and the choice to hold it on the ill-equipped Djerba Island are not making things easier.
Russia is struggling to meet delivery deadlines for its Sputnik V vaccines, with several African capitals still waiting for their first doses.
