Financially hammered by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, Airports Company South Africa is in desperate need of cash to stay afloat.
The two oil companies are hoping to rapidly finalise the sale of the Cap Lopez terminal via which most of Gabon's output transits, but there are several obstacles on the path ahead.
The ship registry, which is Liberia's principal source of international influence and foreign currency, has always been jealously guarded by the country's leaders. George Weah, who has been in office in January 2018, is no exception.
FCC, the all-powerful cocoa regulatory body, is due in the next month to rule on a dispute between one of its active committee members, the trader and founder of the RockWinds trading company Matthew Stolz, and the Ivorian firm Africa Commodities.
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The project spearheaded by the African Union's former peace and security commissioner Smaïl Chergui to create a pan-African force of 3,000 men looks like being dropped by his successor Bankole Adeoye, who is nevertheless keen for the AU to play a central role in the Sahel as France prepares for a "substantial" troop withdrawal this summer.
African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina is due to hold an event in Abidjan in mid-March dedicated to the resilience of African economies to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The medical evacuation by presidential jet of Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko to France, where he already underwent a battery of tests during a private stay just last month, will deprive President Alassane Ouattara of a head of government on health grounds for the second time in the space of a year.
The Ruparelia family, one of the most powerful in the country, has taken charge of Ugandan rallies. Many business dynasties have followed in its footsteps and discovered a passion for motorsports.
The ostensibly common interests of Mamoudzou's logistics firms have not always sufficed to secure business from Total's Cabo Delgado gas activities.
Lepate Vincent Ramokate left De Beers to strike out on his own in 2014. His latest company Eland Resources has drawn the attention of businessmen based in the United Arab Emirates.
A South African court ruling that has found Mineral Commodities guilty of attempting to silence environmental campaigners is further hindering the firm's efforts to find buyers for its heavy mineral sands project.
Chinese public sector company Sinomine, which has until now provided geological, engineering and logistics services to other mining firms, has just begun producing copper in Zambia on its own account for the needs of Chinese industry.
The French finance ministry has organised a big get-together of France's industry leaders to better coordinate their efforts on the Libyan market.
Construction Management Services, run by the king's former steward Zouhair Fassi-Fehri, is to build two giant shopping centres for the Marjane hypermarket chain, a subsidiary of the Al Mada royal holding company.