Panic at the summit of the state in Kampala has resulted in a deal that is highly favourable to the oil companies. Here's what happened behind the scenes.
Dissatisfaction is growing in the Cameroonian army as it finds itself in the front line of the fight against separatist groups in anglophone regions while the special forces defending the country's seats of power are given preferential treatment.
Having broken off its contract with Swiss trading group Augusta, which had been lifting part of the production of its refinery operator, Société Gabonaise de Raffinage, Gabon is now trying to find a replacement.
Despite all the delays under his predecessors in launching construction works on the Inga III dam, Félix Tshisekedi is eager to embark on a much more ambitious project in Kongo Central province: the Grand Inga.
In April following an audit conducted by the defence ministry, the Nigerien judiciary opened an investigation into the affairs of Arquus/Renault Trucks. For its part, the French company, which supplied 75 vehicles to the Nigerien army between 2017 and 2019, is expecting Niamey to stump up the sum of €3.
In an effort to bring to an end its legal dispute with P&ID, the Nigerian state has brought its right to sovereign immunity back to centre stage.
Ever since Umaro Sissoco Embalo stepped into power in Guinea-Bissau early last year, the Turkish head of state Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been working to build an unexpected and unprecedented connection between the two countries.
The government of Mauritius has hired the French law firm Bredin Prat to fight its blacklisting by the European Union.
After stepping down as head of Africa for Gemcorp last year, the Portuguese financier Gaspar Lino has kept one foot in the African continent and another in Dubai, where he runs his own financial services firm while managing the African assets of a local sheikh.
The Dyck Advisory Group's light Bat Hawk aircraft that crashed in June is not the first to fall from the skies: the aeronautical operator has lost several planes chartered to clients in Mozambique.
Strategically key for bringing to fruition the oil and gas projects on which Mozambique's economic development depends, the World Bank's assistance programme could be extended on account of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Turkey has begun talks with the government in Tripoli on the operating concession for the strategically important port of Misrata as French logistics giant Bolloré fights on for recognition of the contract it signed with Libya in 2010.
