To pursue its national defence industry plans, Egypt is preparing a new drone order with a key transfer of technology components and is looking at suppliers from the US, China and Italy.
Congolese authorities are trying to get the construction of the 64 MW Grand Katende hydroelectric power station, on hold since the Kamuina Nsapu insurrection in 2016, back on track.
The law firm Emery Mukendi has accused one of its partners, and creator of its website, of making free with the reputation of its late founder, a lawyer to the DRC government and numerous mining cases who succumbed to Covid-19 in 2020.
Former British Ambassador to Nigeria and, much more briefly, to DRC, Paul Arkwright is about to become strategic advisor to the Indian telephone operator Bharti Airtel, which is present in fourteen African countries.
With Ghana looking set to lose two of its most strategically important posts at the UN and the African Union in 2021, Akufo-Addo is redoubling his efforts to get Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee appointed as deputy chair of the AU Commission.
France's JA Delmas and Morocco's Tractafric, both of which distribute Caterpillar products in various parts of Africa, have by common agreement decided to terminate their partnership. A new JA Delmas subsidiary will be developing power plant projects on its own for the mining industry.
Following former Bulgarian diplomat Stanimir Alexandrov's appointment earlier this month, a second member has been picked to join the ICSID artibral tribunal that will hear the case opposing Nigerian and Italian major ENI.
The deputy governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia has sent a letter to the heads of all the country's commercial banks ordering them to close the accounts and freeze the assets of businessmen figuring on its list of suspected TPLF supporters.
After getting the cold shoulder from Paris, the national carrier Air Madagascar has turned to Ethiopian Airlines in the hope of forming a partnership that will help it stay afloat.
The Russian financier Alex Gerchik, ex-trader and briefly a reality TV star, has set up a subsidiary in Mauritius for his online trading platform. Companies of this type have mushroomed in the island's offshore hub as well in the Seychelles.
Séché Environnement has just furthered its position in South Africa by acquiring hazardous waste expert Spill Tech, taking advantage of the absence of fellow French giants Suez and Veolia in South African waste management.
Canadian lawyer and "star" of Chadian oil business hopes to turn the Namibian desert into a new Texas.
With the legal deadlines to recover the hundreds of millions of euros misappropriated by the clan of the ex-president about to expire, President Kais Saied is being hindered by government departments and the speaker of parliament, the Islamist Rached Ghannouchi.
Emmanuel Macron jumped on the phone to Mohammed VI on 24 January, a day after the Polisario Front fired missiles into the Guerguerat buffer zone controlled by Morocco and just after putting down the receiver from a call with his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
