Following a legal setback in early July in its efforts to offload its shallow offshore sites in Nigeria, the US major ExxonMobil is reshuffling its management team.
Six months after ECair and South African investor Allegiance Capital signed an agreement, there is already much disagreement between them.
Having discreetly dispatched a delegation to Doha in late May, a cash-strapped Bamako is now seeking to secure financial support for the transition. It has also appointed a new ambassador to Qatar.
Around a dozen maritime and inland surveillance posts are currently being equipped or created in Mauritania - a major project being carried out by the defence electronics firm Hensoldt Nexeya.
The iconic Family Support Program being on hold, the World Bank will resume with the help of the World Food Programme a similar scheme, but with a considerably smaller budget. A way for international donors to take the Sudanese military government out of the loop.
With just three weeks to go before Kenya's general election, the Mombasa governor's stranglehold on trade between South Sudan and Kenya is irking companies in both countries.
With the ANC's five-yearly national conference due to take place in December, the South African president has been weakened by a scandal involving money stolen from one of his farms. At a recent meeting, his inner circle raised its concerns.
Ater buying BCL's mining assets, Canadian Premium Nickel Resources has just invested in the region's tourism sector, much to the delight of President Masisi, who wants mining groups to boost the country's second biggest source of revenue, which was hit hard by Covid-19.
China is hoovering up all the major Algerian hydrocarbon projects launched by state-owned Sonatrach, much to the chagrin of European, Korean and Indian firms.
The project to build a deepwater port in Enfidha, postponed numerous times, is being relaunched with a call for tenders. Six companies are in the running but the funds for the project have yet to be secured.
Barian, a specialist in Arab-Andalusian architecture who has worked for the Moroccan monarchy for half a century, has been appointed to run Primarios, the company tasked with furnishing and maintaining the country's royal palaces and residences.
