Investments from Qatar in DR Congo are expected to be announced shortly. Félix Tshisekedi is also preparing to open his first embassy in Qatar.
Catherine Colonna has appointed a diplomat previously posted to the UN and to Burkina Faso to be her senior advisor on Africa.
Sierra Leone is willing to start analysis of its mineral resources to clarify a study carried out a few months ago and, more importantly, get back in touch with investors.
New French PM Elisabeth Borne has just picked her top diplomatic adviser, with the post set to go to diplomat Hélène Farnaud-Defromont, former French ambassador to Belgium, from July 2019 to November 2021.
The Hungarian light aircraft manufacturer Magnus Aircraft has been in close contact with the Nigerian authorities in recent weeks to discuss options to increase the Nigerian Air Force's intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capacities.
The mining companies Guinean Lithium Ressources and African Lithium Mining Ressources, registered in Guinea in April, have applied for exploration permits in the south of Guinea
During his previous presidency, relations between the newly elected Somali head of state Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and his Western allies were far from ideal, yet this could be about to change.
A firm believer that a nuclear programme is the solution to South Africa's energy crisis, Mantashe is facing opposition to his plan.
On 25 May, the radical left-wing party, which is the third biggest in the country and has close links with Russia, is organising a march on the French embassy in Pretoria. Unprecedented in South Africa, the demonstration is billed as denouncing France's interference in the continent's affairs.
The president of a DRC minor opposition party, Christian Malanga, and two Americans working in the medicinal cannabis sector, have become partners in a mining venture.
The Orange Basin, home to two of the largest crude oil discoveries in Africa in recent decades, is currently the focus of intense competition that could lead to record-breaking deals.
Said Elhadi, who has headed the electricity production company controlled by Mohammed VI's Al Mada holding company since 2017, is set to leave his post after having obtained mixed results. One of Al Mada's top managers is favourite to succeed him.
