At the upcoming SADC talks in Maputo, Botswanan President Mokgweetsi Masisi will put foward a military and logistical response to the security crisis in Cabo Delgado, an initiative that is also intended to shore up the candidacy of Masisi favourite Elias Magosi as SADC secretary-general.
Ahead of his re-election President Denis Sassou Nguesso made a raft of campaign promises to launch major works. Some are already withering on the vine.
Since his appointment in January Aristide Aimé Zongo has met a range of mining industry stakeholders as he plans how to put his country firmly back on the map of top African producers.
Michael Ajukwu, a Nigerian banker who is well-connected in South Africa, was appointed head of Lekoil in January. He is stepping down after just three months in the job. Here's why:
Without waiting for the end of the traditional three-month mourning period, the brothers of the Grande Loge de Cote d'Ivoire (GLCI) have appointed an interim successor to recently deceased prime minister Hamed Bakayoko. He will remain in the position until the lodge's next general assembly.
Just two and a half years after its inauguration, the Sendou coal-fired power plant is in default with several dozen creditors. The courts have already reportedly placed it in receivership.
The negotiations Airbus Defence and Space's sales team began with Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé when he was on a state visit to France in early April are making progress.
While Mozambique and Guinea Bissau have yet to ratify the African Union's AfCFTA, the United Nations wants to coach Portuguese-speaking African countries on the free trade agreement.
The Afungi gas site is likely to remain dormant for at least a year. Total has no faith in the Mozambican army's capacity to restore order there any time soon.
Foreign Minister Tete António was in Paris on 20-22 April.
The UAE, Monaco, Mauritius and Singapore are no longer the only jurisdictions scanning bank accounts to track down the assets of the former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos and his family.
The French construction giant and bidder for a contract to build the Dakhla Atlantique port will join a delegation of elected French officials planning to visit the Western Sahara city in June.
The case pitting the Compagnie des Grands Hôtels d'Afrique against US hotel giant Starwood has gone to the UK courts, with Maquay Investments, linked to Starwood, and its director Sarah Purdy at the centre of these new proceedings.
