Shaking off an illness that has kept him confined to South Africa for months, the retired colonel Lionel Dyck headed to Mozambique in March to launch an internal probe in response to allegations by Amnesty International.
Active in banking and private education, the Cameroonian Jean-Pierre Amougou Belinga is trying to raise funds for a pan-African television channel that would be the successor to Télésud, which has been in liquidation since 2019.
The ongoing internal inquiry ordered by the United Nations into the murder of Italy's ambassador to the DRC Luca Attanasio has arrived at some initial findings.
MobiWire, Dermalog, Idemia, Veridium and Thales are among the firms interested in a contract with the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) to fingerprint holders of mobile payment account holders with telecoms operators in the region.
Salma Mining, which has obtained a gold mining permit in Burkina Faso, is headed by Mamoudou Ouédraogo, the son and business manager of one of the most influential entrepreneurs of the Compaoré era, Alizéta Ouédraogo.
New general and chief of army staff Ibrahim Attahiru has warned Norinco that it could be excluded from future equipment supply contracts after mobile units it supplied ran into technical problems shortly after they were delivered to the army last November.
US defence contractor Barbaricum wants to diversify in Somalia and has expressed an interest in supporting AMISOM.
The wealthy Indian Kothari family, which owns the KGK Group gemstone and jewellery company, is backing João Lourenço's shake-up of the diamond sector. By helping the president with his plan to make Angola more than a mere producer of stones, the Kotharis are counting on better access to the country's output.
Two years after Cyclone Idai tore through Sofala province, the state-owned electricity firm Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) is looking to contract a company to replace the cable that runs between the substations of Dondo and Munhava.
Prince Moulay Rachid, the brother of Mohammed VI, is looking to open up his MAIC fund, set up to finance the creation TDM Aerospace, to Moroccan institutional investors with a view to expanding subcontracting opportunities with Boeing and Airbus.
The Dubai-based Trasta, operator of the Ras Lanuf refinery, has failed to convince a Paris court of the bias of an ICC arbitrator in order to have it overturn a 2018 ruling against it in its dispute with Libya's state-owned NOC.
Expanding rapidly in Tripoli, the British security firm Vellichor Risk has entrusted its Libyan operations to the retired brigadier Rob Jefferies, who is working in conjunction with the leading local company Security Side.
The former member of Ennahda's political bureau, Abdallah Khalfaoui, is emerging still further from the shadow of the party leader, Rached Ghannouchi, and is now competing with him on the terrain of relations with Turkey, a longstanding ally of the Islamist party.
