President Uhuru Kenyatta has appointed a task force to negotiate an out-of-court settlement with CMC di Ravenna, the Italian constructor claiming $114.2m in damages for the cancellation of its two dam projects, Arror and Kimwarer.
The unconstitutional replacement of late Chadian president Idriss Déby by his son Gen Mahamat Idriss Déby has split the African Union into two camps, with some keen to condemn the new ruling military council and others willing to work with the new authorities as soon as possible.
The trial of Brice Laccruche Alihanga is due to resume today. Ali Bongo's former chief of staff has been detained for more than a year during his prosecution for embezzlement. Now forgery has been added to his charge sheet.
Oil major Shell has appointed the first member of the arbitral tribunal that will examine its dispute with the Nigerian state over an oil spill near Rivers State in 1970.
Germany is determined to play an even bigger role in the fight against Jihadists in Mali and Niger through the construction of a military hospital and increasing the numbers of German troops on-site.
R-Logitech, the logistics arm of Monaco Resources, has created a joint venture with Mauritanian magnate Ould Noueigued hoping to boost its chances of winning contracts with oil services firm developing the vast gas field Grand Tortue.
Online news channel Brut, founded in 2016 by Renaud Le Van Kim, Guillaume Lacroix and Laurent Lucas, is launching its first African venture in May.
While he may have accepted their vote during the January election in which he won another term, President Yoweri Museveni is now taking tough action to achieve another goal: increase state revenue.
The president, in the latest twist in his ongoing battle with Brazilian billionaire Edir Macedo's evangelical church, has stopped his television stations from broadcasting in Angola.
The Chinese oil firm wants the blocks that the majors abandoned in Madagascar because of high exploration costs.
Five independent electric companies recently made the cut to participate in the final round for choosing who will win the bid to build a solar power plant with an output of 30-40 MW in Sofala province in central Mozambique.
The two partners had announced in 2017 they would jointly invest around 200 million dirhams (€20m) to build a production and packaging facility in Morocco's oil-growing region of Meknès.
Hicham Dlimi, a representative of the youth faction of Agriculture and Fishing Minister Aziz Akhannouch's RNI (Rassemblement national indépendant) party and son of former wali, El Gheilani Dlimi, is expanding his business to Dakhla.