As the fighting in Khartoum intensifies, the United States, the United Nations and EU countries are looking at various scenarios for the evacuation of their nationals and staff.
The mining services firm remains at the heart of a protracted legal dispute between the French entrepreneur and the former governor of Katanga. The battle has recently swung in Beveraggi's favour and he is now recovering funds from Ecobank and Gécamines.
On 5 May a hearing is take place in the case involving the allegedly fraudulent attribution of diplomatic status for monetary gain, which is estimated to have cost the Cameroonian treasury nearly €6m. Investigators are particularly interested in how football star Samuel Eto'o's name was used.
To supply his steel mills, India's Naveen Jindal has set his sights on the Zogota deposit in Guinea, whose licence quietly fell back into state hands last year. The junta leader is backing the plan, and Niron Metals, the site's official owner, has given up all hope of developing the project.
The French engineering company Artelia and its Mauritanian partner Afrecom are in the running for the contract to update the master plan for Nouakchott's water supply system.
As his RSF fighters do battle with the Sudanese army, the militia leader is also waging a propaganda war on social media with the help of an experienced team based in Khartoum and Dubai.
In line with the Tigray peace progress, the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union will meet next week to update the bloc's joint policy on Ethiopia.
Les ministres des affaires étrangères de l'Union européenne (UE), qui doivent se réunir le 24 avril au Luxembourg, ont ajouté à la dernière minute le Soudan à leur agenda à la suite des violents combats qui ont éclaté dans le pays
The cabinet has approved a new mining code, the reopening of the mining register and the resumption of gold exports. World Bank lobbying has been a significant factor in those decisions, the institution having made its forthcoming €200m budgetary aid conditional on the sector's reform.
Reinvigorating the Algerian economy to attract more foreign investment is the challenge that Kamel Moula set himself when he took the helm of the country's new employers' association a year ago.
The Libyan National Oil Corp is working hard to seal a deal with Halliburton for the exploration of oil fields needing rehabilitation in the east of the country. But the involvement of a curious third party is staying the US oil services giant's hand.
