The Turkish president's visit to Egypt after a decade of chilled relations signals a rapprochement between Ankara and Cairo, while talks with Turkish arms agency SSB should spur military-industrial cooperation.
The European Union has commissioned a French expert to set up a €6m demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration (DDR) programme for former jihadists in Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria and Niger.
The mine bought by Simon Tiemtoré's Canadian company Lilium Mining in 2023 has ground to a halt because of ongoing militant attacks on fuel deliveries.
Mali's CIRA, led by Seydou Mamadou Coulibaly, has won a contract for two road corridors in Senegal.
Using a fast-track recruitment procedure, the African Union Commission's human resources department has appointed a new legal counsel, Tunisian jurist Hajer Gueldich, ending the ongoing squabbling over the post.
Parliament is currently examining amendments dealing with the ownership of vast tracts of land acquired when Kenya was colonised by Britain. The opposition fears this might rekindle communal conflicts.
The IMF is understood to be ready to back a new Ethiopian economic reform plan, which, among other things, will open up the retail distribution sector to foreign investors.
With just months to go before the presidential elections, following major oil discoveries in the Orange Basin, an all-out battle is under way for control of the oil sector.
The US businessman, who returned to the kingdom in 2022, is behind the ORNX Boujdour green hydrogen platform project, launched in partnership with a subsidiary of a Spanish energy and infrastructure conglomerate.
