The Kabaale refinery project, which the Ugandan president hopes will shore up his legacy and make the country self-sufficient in hydrocarbons, is far from being on track.
The well-connected lawyer is backing the US-Africa Energy Forum 2021, whose aim is to promote greater American business involvement in Africa - a continent where the Chinese are currently omnipresent.
The president of Ivory Coast is preparing to release dozens of political prisoners faithful to Gbagbo, Bédié and Soro as discussions about Laurent Gbagbo's return to Ivory Coast progress.
The death of the Chadian president, who had been at the head of the G5 Sahel since February, has left a leadership vacuum. The group's heads of state are expected to meet in N'Djamena on 22 April to convince the Transitional Military Council to hand the presidency to Burkina Faso.
In response to the tense situation, the interior minister Antoine Félix Abdoulaye Diome placed an urgent order for a consignment of several dozen BATT armoured personnel carriers (APC) from the American-Emirati supplier The Armored Group (TAG).
A standoff between companies vying for the distribution of Russia's Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V has filtered into the political sphere, embroiling the ruling party's vice-chairman David Murathe.
Concerns over the unequal distribution of the cost of checking the origins of "3T" minerals between upstream operators in the African Great Lakes region and downstream operators outside the region have become increasingly acute as a result of Covid-19 and the increase in world tin prices.
From television to logistics, Abraham has a hand in everything the French group Bolloré does in Ethiopia.
In recruiting the retired American general and former national security advisor to Obama, Canada's Mkango Resources is seeking to align itself with Washington's drive to emancipate itself from China's domination of the rare earths sector.
Engaged in a major charm offensive aimed at the EU, this summer Mauritius plans to enforce a new law requiring companies registered on the island to prove that they have "substantial activities" in the country, but the legislation does recognise holding companies' activities as substantial ones.
Madagascar-based Hassanein Hiridjee's Axian Group has just bought cellular operator Millicom's operation in Tanzania and is closing another deal in infrastructure. Both operations are being shouldered by Southbridge advisory bank, founded by Rothschild veteran Lionel Zinsou.
Mercury Public Affairs has tasked the American Toby Moffett with overseeing the lobbying contract awarded by the Libyan government on 7 April. A former Democratic congressman, he has represented Morrocan interests in Washington for several years.
Franco-Moroccan company psychologist Charles Teboul, a tireless promoter of rejuvenation therapy, has built up a contact network which stretches from Ethiopia to Libya, helped by his links with events magnate Richard Attias.
Finance minister Ali Kooli's attempt to negotiate a new loan from the Qatar National Bank, with the backing of the Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi, floundered when Doha set the interest rate at 5.5%.