After eight years of coaxing, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has concluded a major military and economic agreement with Niger - to France's great chagrin.
The High Court of Justice in London agreed with the defendant, the owner of 3T trader Sodexmines, that it lacked jurisdiction to rule on plaintiff Traxys's allegation that it fraudulently swapped a shipment of tin with a worthless product.
At a recent investment forum, Ankara highlighted opportunities in Guinea's mining sector. It's part of Turkey's aim to challenge China's position as Conakry's number one partner.
The opening of a new Turkish embassy in Equatorial Guinea has crowned an already vigorous partnership between Ankara and the Obiang family, cemented by numerous contracts for Turkish companies, including the Summa conglomerate.
Busy flexing its muscles since late July with maritime security operation Okun Alafia II, the Nigerian Navy's counter-piracy efforts are still short of two patrol boats stuck in Vietnam because of complications linked to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Angolan president sent his director of intelligence to reassure his Ivorian counterpart of his support in October's presidential election.
US firm Symbion Power has enlisted the services of Israeli's Galil Engineering Group, which will be assembling four floating barges, to help it build the Kivu 56 gas plant located in Lake Kivu.
A close associate of former president Guebuza, Dino Foi has brought Mawete Kana in from Luanda to develop Helicab, his new helicopter rental company.
The conditions under which Sonatrach acquired the heavily loss-making Augusta refinery in Sicily are under judicial investigation in Algeria. Before losing his post, however, former Sonatrach boss Ould Kaddour drew up a strategy intended to avoid the disaster.
Morocco's sustainable energy agency Masen is gradually clarifying details of its solar power plant project in Dakhla, Western Sahara, which will be part of its Noor programme.
