After president Omar al-Bashir was deposed in 2019, a deal was struck to share power between military and civilian leaders for a transitional period leading to elections in December next year. But the ruling Sovereignty Council set up by that deal is stealthily finding ways to postpone the polls, which now will not happen before 2024.
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Politics 
Be it in Paris, Yaoundé or Casablanca, Cameroonian oligarch Victor Fotso's numerous beneficiaries are peppering the courts with battle after battle.
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Business The Portuguese diplomat Raul Mateus Paula, the European Union's ambassador to the Republic of Congo since 2018, will be packing his bags this summer. He is set to be replaced by the Italian Giacomo Durazzo.
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Diplomacy 
A delegation from the Iranian ministry of defence attended security and defence fair ShieldAfrica in Abidjan from 8-10 June. Tehran has many ties to Ivory Coast through its large Shia Lebanese community.
ExxonMobil has almost completed its departure from Chad. Its disengagement from Equatorial Guinea is proving more complicated, thanks largely to obstruction from the ruling Obiang family.
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Energy Australian lithium mining company Firefinch, which has made a high-speed sally into gold mining to take advantage of high gold prices, has called in Portuguese construction company Mota-Engil to help it boost operations at Mali's giant Morila Gold Mine.
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Mining 
By appointing Ruth Ssentamu as energy and mineral development minister, the Ugandan president has put this key post in the hands of a trusted and devoted collaborator. With her highly political, non-technical profile, she will have the job of dealing with opposition calls for greater transparency over oil contracts.
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Energy Australian mining magnate Fortescue, which is scouring the continent for renewable energy projects, has its sights set on a large-scale hydrogen project in Djibouti.
Akbaraly's Sipromad, Pirbay's Gulfsat and China's Huawei and StarTimes are all keenly interested in a lucrative contract to convert Madagascar's analogue television broadcasting technology to digital.
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Business As expected, the final draft of the Petroleum Bill provides for the state to have a carried interest of 20% in oil permits. Energy companies are hoping to get the National Assembly, which will examine the bill over the next few weeks, to modify this provision.
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Energy 
Once at odds over a big IT contract, state-controlled oil giant Sonatrach and CNPC subsidairy Richfit have put their differences behind them and are teaming up once again.
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Business After two years of talks, Scatec, Engie and the consortium TBEA-AMEA Power are at last on track to start construction of five solar farms totalling 500 MW, on top of which Mechichi's government wants to already add a further 1200 MW in solar and wind power.
As tension rises in the run-up to the second Berlin conference, Italy is taking steps to secure a better footing with Libya's two main eastern representatives, Mohamed el-Menfi and Aguila Salah Issa, awaiting the arrival of its consul in Benghazi.
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Diplomacy 