Several haulage companies have stopped exporting minerals mined in the DRC and are restricting themselves to transport operations within the country, claiming that tolls imposed when crossing into Zambia are prohibitively high.
European drilling and geophysical services companies are seeing their activities shrink drastically under the impact of the economic crisis and Chinese competition, particularly in the onshore seismic segment. Several of them are even close to bankruptcy.
The Congolese prime minister Sama Lukonde Kyenge, who has just embarked on consultations to form his new administration, is envisaging several possibilities.
With just a year to go before he becomes chairperson of the African Union, Senegalese head of state Macky Sall has started to give the first indications of his plans for the continent.
The Chinese and Nigerian authorities have negotiated the purchase of six CH-4 combat drones manufactured by ALIT amid a deteriorating security situation in many regions of Nigeria.
Since being forced into retirement a year ago, Paul McDade has embarked on a new adventure in west African oil thanks to Sterling Energy and is now keen to start buying assets.
Air Sahel, a five-nation project born in 2015, is not going to get into the air any time soon. A new report notably does not call for its imminent launch but instead proposes open-sky measures in G5 states to help existing airlines.
The pan-African Afreximbank run by the Nigerian Benedict Oramah is seeking to cultivate good relations with vehicle manufacturers and with the management of Japan's Nissan in particular.
Emmanuel Macron will dine with Alassane Ouattara on 3 March in Paris and the two leaders will likely discuss jihadist violence in the Sahel, the Ivorian political situation, bilateral projects, and the Debt Reduction-Development Contract (C2D).
Of all the directorates of the Southern African Development Community, the one charged with regional political, defence, and security issues is by far the most strategic. Headed by Angola's Jorge Cardoso, it has to humour the changing moods of the organisation's rotating presidents at a time when a SADC military response is increasingly expected in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province.
Thanks to a decree signed this Thursday by the French Prime Minister, the only candidate declared against the outgoing President Ismail Omar Guelleh will be able to compete in the presidential election of 9 April.
The public Kenya Electricity Generating Co. (KenGen) is intending to build a plant for assembling photovoltaic solar panels that will be powered by the Tana power station in Muranga County to the north of the capital Nairobi.
A former MPLA member turned deputy chair of Angola's monarchist party, Antunes Paulo Monteiro has recently set up two mining project management companies. His partners in this business venture are members of the powerful Cabindan Ranque Franque family.
With the construction of a plant to make prefabricated concrete in Misrata, the Turkish firm Karanfil is hoping to carve itself out a big niche in the Libyan reconstruction market. This venture owes much to Murtaza Karanfil's ties with the new prime minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba and with the mayor of Misrata, Mahmoud Sgoutri.
The Tunisian judiciary is preparing to question a number of current and former Maersk executives suspected of having helped a client, businessman Tahar Latrous, take foreign currency out of the country in contravention of exchange controls.
