Yoweri Museveni, worried about accumulating too much debt, has still not approved China's funding plan for the Mombasa-Kigali railway. The Chinese are relying on diplomacy to gather support from parliament.
Washington showed its support for the DRC by sending a team of US special forces to the country's national parks, where rebel groups frequently wreak havoc. But effective security cooperation has been slow to materialise.
The target since 12 May of arbitration proceedings at ICSID brought by UK company World Natural Resources (WNR), Congo has sought help from two familiar French lawyers.
Breaking news published on 15/09/21 at 10 a.m. - A contract to develop six Grand Inga mega dams seems to be slipping out of the mining giant's hands. Founded by Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest, Fortescue Metals had pledged to invest $80bn.
Prior to the coup that toppled Alpha Condé, the government had been actively engaged in responding to the IMF, which had expressed reservations over the reliability of the tax declarations of mining companies active in Guinea, and of Chinese operators in particular.
The organisation's heads of state are meeting in Accra on 16 September over the situation in Guinea. Some members are pushing for a 6-month civilian-led transition fiercely opposed by the junta, which hopes to keep control over the transition.
The African Union's hiring policy is something of a weak point, so whoever takes charge of it next will be closely watched by member states.
For three months now, Hamburg Port Consulting has been working to reduce delays for unloading ships at Port Sudan, the only international port in the country.
In late August, football's governing body FIFA finally won its ongoing battle with the former chief executive of the South African Football Association, Leslie Sedibe, whom it had accused of fixing the friendlies of the South African national squad in 2010.
Is the French leader of mineral-based specialities Imerys about to reboot its graphite mining projects in Namibia?
The reopening of the border between Tunisia and Libya is to be negotiated next week. Tunis has security and health concerns and fears infiltration by jihadists. But it also sees the border issue as a card to play to settle old scores.
The newly elected prime minister is deciding who to appoint as his closest advisers and aides. He will be able to draw from his team at the agriculture ministry and from his Akwa holding company and the RNI party, which are already largely merged.
