Congolese intelligence services had good reason to be suspicious about Alexander Zingman's relationship with the ex-president.
The US chain is mainly active on Africa's east coast and until now has had no business in central Africa. Now it's putting up a luxury hotel in Cameroon.
Appointed prime minister on 12 May Anatole Collinet Makosso is considering going to Paris in the coming weeks.
Sergio Spadaro, a public prosecutor in Milan, has over the past decade become a major figure in the fight against corruption in Italy, relentlessly pursuing the oil major and its subsidiaries as well as politicians.
Chinese state-owned company Sinohydro won the entire contract for developing and asphalting the 210-km road between Djougou and Banikoara.
The ailing Eritrean president, who in recent months has become a key player in the Tigrayan conflict and in other diplomatic and military issues in the region, has made no official plans for the day he leaves office, despite his illness.
Over the past few days, Ethiopia has suspended visas on arrival and electronic visas, for non-Ethiopians wishing to enter the country
Despite his public pronouncements Indian foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar focussed on business when he travelled to Kenya.
The United States is worried that violent unrest in the northern province of Mozambique might spread to neighbouring states. The State Department plans to closely monitor Mozambique's border with Malawi.
Weighing in at a jaw-dropping 1,098 carats, the gemstone discovered by Debswana, a partnership between De Beers and Gaborone, made headlines the world over. But behind all the distracting sparkle, the business of diamonds is losing its shine.
Neither President Kaïs Saïed nor the government of Hichem Mechichi have so far managed to come up with a reform plan which meets the conditions imposed by the IMF for granting a $4bn loan. In any case, the loan would barely enable Tunisia to cover its upcoming payment deadlines.
Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba wants to push for a postponement of the 24 December presidential and legislative elections to which other senior officials are also putting up road blocks even as potential candidate Khalifa Haftar readies for battle.
Morocco has been invited for the first time time to take part in the meetings of the Mali Transition Support Group and is trying to get more involved in Malian affairs at the African Union.
The Portuguese maker of surveillance UAVs is to give Tunisia's defence ministry a demonstration of its wares. It has its eye on a slice of EU funding for programmes in Tunisia and Libya aimed at preventing irregular migrants reaching its borders.
