In his race to stop Ethiopia from filling its huge Renaissance dam, the Egyptian president is rallying the Nile Basin countries to his cause one by one.
Trident Energy is gearing up to bring new investors on board. But the American private equity firm Warburg Pincus, which has been the oil company's main backer for five years, will not be involved in this new funding round.
Sofema is hashing out the final details of a deal to deliver Libreville with 15 armoured vehicles to be deployed with the Gabonese contingents in MINUSCA, eclipsing in the process its shareholder Arquus, initially selected but unable to fulfil the contract.
Mobutu's former spy chief, the Congolese senator Edouard Mokolo, may have his apartment in the Paris region seized on account of unpaid taxes.
The newly appointed Congolese budget minister Roger-Rigobert Andely has named a select group to reopen communication channels with the IMF and negotiate the disbursement of the second tranche of a loan programme that has been blocked for the past year.
The entourage of President Ali Bongo has installed allies at the head of Gabon Oil Co and the directorate of hydrocarbons, two key posts in Gabon's oil sector.
The French lawyer Antoine Vey, a long-time associate of France's current justice minister Eric Dupond-Moretti, undertook an extended tour of Africa in May. Since late April, he has also been representing the Congolese former warlord Roger Lumbala.
A recent Port of Antwerp International report presented to the Guinean authorities concluded that the current management of the Kamsar bauxite export port is restricting its development and the local economy, and it has proposed a roadmap for reform.
The French investment bank has teamed up with the Jeddah-based organisation in order to diversify and expand on the continent.
FlyAfrica boss Cassidy Mugwaga, who has close ties to the Mnangagwa clan, is setting up a new aviation investment vehicle with backing from two Hong Kong financiers.
Taking advantage of a favourable climate and existing infrastructure in South Africa, Total is looking at the option of speeding up expansion at a reduced cost. This will depend to a large extent on a good working relationship with the state, which owns the pipeline and the GTL plant to which the French major hopes to sell its gas.
Bruno Morgado, who has solid connections within the ruling party, is gearing up to import Covid-19 vaccines.
For all the media spin of President Tebboune, the Algerian-Chinese mega-project slated for 2022 to exploit the phosphate deposits in the south of the country has been torpedoed by the withdrawal first of Wengfu and now of Citic.