Back in Kenya after a week in the UK, presidential candidate Raila Odinga has been giving attention to his foreign policy credentials. To attract the favours of the West, he has highlighted Kenya's role as a peacemaker in the Horn of Africa, a region riven by civil wars and political crises.
Nearly a month after the arrest and the release of four French soldiers, Paris and Bangui are now arguing over the accommodation made available for French military cooperation personnel in the capital.
While waiting for the third and final report from the Commonwealth's inspection mission, Gabon is continuing to develop its British tropism.
Following on from Robert Friedland last year, Naguib Sawiris' La Mancha has just invested in a West Africa project of Canadian miners Benoît La Salle and Marc-Antoine Audet. French group Eramet also has its eye on a Guinean area the pair know well.
Opposition leaders Cellou Dalein Diallo and Sidya Touré each made separate trips to Europe last week to make their voices heard and garner support for their efforts aiming to influence the transition process initiated by the junta in Guinea.
On 11 March, the Columbia district Court of Appeals rejected Nigeria's claim to "sovereign immunity" from the legal action brought against it in the United States by Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID).
Although it has not been put on the sanctions list drawn up by the US Treasury, Alain Goetz's UAE company Aldabra is unlikely to escape punitive action by the US. The US sanctions have also put Uganda, where his African Gold Refinery is based, in a difficult position.
Spiritual leader Abune Mathias spoke out last week to openly criticise the Ethiopian government's role in the war. A rare occurence, which caused uproar among Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali's entourage.
For over a decade Wesizwe Platinum has been tipped as the next newcomer to South African platinum, but is currently working to reassure its investors. The company, majority owned by Chinese state-owned firm Jinchuan, is facing backlash from local communities.
During his visit to Madagascar, the French director of security and defence cooperation tried to breathe new life into the partnership between the two countries. Maritime projects launched by the US and Japan are also moving at a slow pace.
Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba sent the government fleet's VIP Airbus A340, usually reserved for his official trips, to pick up the Tripolitan team in Lusaka, where they were playing a CAF Cup qualifying match.
Morocco's powerful fish lobby FENIP is now operating in Brussels. Six months after an EU court ruled to exclude Western Sahara from EU-Morocco fisheries agreements, the lobby's president Hassan Sentissi el-Idrissi is on an exports drive.
