The sharing of power between the pro-Kabila clan and the various factions that support the new president has turned the handling of the Dig Oil file into a delicate juggling act for the Congolese state.
To keep Chadian diplomat Moussa Faki Mahamat at the helm of the African Union Commission, a key role in the organisation of the bloc, Chad's diplomatic corps quietly paid visits to several capitals.
Le producteur britannique d'électricité Globeleq Africa, qui opère depuis 2014 la centrale au gaz de Kribi et celle au fuel lourd de Dibamba, a maille à partir avec le fisc camerounais.
Canadian mining junior Bankers Cobalt, which counts Congolese businessmen Simon Tuma-Waku and Yves Kabongo among its senior managers, has been renamed Central African Gold even though it has no plans yet to become a pure player in gold mining.
The Beninese navy will be receiving several American Safe Boats vessels to better protect the Port of Cotonou and Gulf of Guinea coastline rife to increasing maritime insecurity.
Italian lawyer Lucio Lucia, who is acting for the Nigerian state in the trial of the parties involved in the Malabu oil scandal, has brought out the big guns before the Milan court hearing the case.
Less than two months after his tour of West Africa, Turkish foreign affairs minister Mevlüt Çavusoglu was back in the region last month to meet with the Mali coup leaders. He hopes to sponge off France's plans but also to consolidate Turkish industrial projects in the country.
Unlike other African countries, which are reducing the volume of fertilisers they are ordering for 2021 in response to the Covid-19 crisis, Ghana plans to increase its fertiliser imports. It wants to avoid food shortages but also to avoid problems for President Nana Akufo-Addo as he prepares to run for a fresh term in December.
Last May, Ethiopian troops stationed northwest of Mogadishu mistakenly shot down one of Fly Africa's planes. The airliner has now hired a law firm to seek compensation.
Five years after he was accused of defrauding the Angolan sovereign fund he was managing, Swiss-Angolan financier Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais has finally been banned from managing companies in Mauritius. The sanction was slow in coming and has fallen at a bad time for Mauritius as it faces criticism from the European Union for having failed to take more drastic action against money laundering.
In its efforts to influence negotiations to end the crisis in Libya, the European Union is hoping for support from the speaker of the eastern-based parliament, despite having slapped sanctions on him in 2016.