Turkish, Qatari, Greek and Portuguese companies flocked to Doha to bid for the Kigali airport contract, but the shortlisted candidates, faced with new last-minute conditions, are nowhere near the end of the race.
Saudi Arabia and India made the most of the Investing in African Mining Indaba annual conference to showcase the investment opportunities on offer on their own home soil.
The World Bank is preparing to finance a new road and rail infrastructure construction programme between Douala and N'Djamena. Expected to cost more than $538m, it recalls an earlier one, completed in 2021, which the bank said had produced "unsatisfactory" results.
The DRC's intelligence services, the Agence nationale de renseignements (ANR), recently released the three businessmen they had secretly been detaining for almost four months.
With its northern borders having come under increasingly frequent attack in recent months, Benin has decided to redeploy troops that are currently serving in the UN mission in Mali.
Despite having the support of the incumbent leader, presidential hopeful Raila Odinga is facing mistrust in the all-important central Kenya region, where his main rival William Ruto is proving to be much more popular.
The day after his inauguration as president of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan landed himself a new ally in the Horn of Africa, where his influence has been growing to the detriment of Qatar.
From 22 to 27 May, representatives from the Portuguese-speaking armies that are part of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries will gather in Praia, the capital of Cape Verde to discuss issues of defence, notably the unrest in Cabo Delgado.
South Africa's parliament is at last about to start debating the draft hydrocarbons bill after numerous postponements but there is still a long way to go before it passes into law.
In the face of Cyril Ramaphosa's popularity within the African National Congress, his former health minister Zweli Mkhize is banking on his native KwaZulu-Natal province to bolster his position, but various political and judicial obstacles stand in his way.
The governor of the Libyan central bank has given his Tunisian counterpart's wife a seat on the board of one of the bank's Italian subsidiaries.
Italy is keeping a close eye on militia movements in Libya in order to anticipate threats to its oil exports. It had to this end sent a defence ministry delegation to Tripoli two days before Fathi Bachagha's attempt to enter the city and oust the prime minister.