The Chadian former foreign minister has reported La Mancha's ex-CEO to the police in Paris, alleging the company cheated him in a deal related to the Sudanese state-owned firm Ariab.
As Russian paramilitary group Wagner continues to extend its influence in the Central African Republic, the European Union is considering suspending payment of an upcoming €30m tranche of budget aid to the government.
The long-serving chairman of the Ivorian subsidiary of France's Société Générale bank, 81-year-old Tiémoko Yadé, told the bank last month that he wanted to stand down. Société Générale, which is Ivory Coast's leading bank, now needs to find a successor with good contacts with the authorities without being too close to them.
Ten people, including Benin's four senior executives from Bolloré Africa Logistics, have been arrested following a vast anti-drug trafficking operation ordered by President Patrice Talon, in the hope it will help shed his country's reputation for being weak on drugs.
The Plaza Athénée hotel in Paris last weekend welcomed the extended family of President Alassane Ouattara, whose daughter-in-law Nathalie Folloroux married Marc Socquet on 26 June at the town hall in the 16th arrondissement.
After the failure of a first tender for two mobile network licences, the government has made a dramatic U-turn.
The US-Kenyan strategic consulting and risk management firm Vates Corp is to bring in a new team of analysts as it renews its contract with the US Department of Defense
Rwandan army officers have made a number of trips to the northern Mozambican gas-producing province. They are looking into how they might intervene against the violent armed groups operating there.
The London-based, Ethiopia-focused fund has recruited Jamila Dahib to run its legal affairs. One of the top priorities of the former employee of Mohammed VI's holding company Al Mada will be to clear up the status of Addis Pharmaceutical Factory, which the war in Tigray has brought to a standstill.
The Italian interior ministry will channel EU funds into the rehabilitation of a Libyan coast guard vessel it pledged to renovate in 2017. The boat is to be in shipshape and the crew trained within a year.
Record numbers of voters stayed away from the 12 June general election, putting paid to Abdelmadjid Tebboune's rescue plans. Now army chief of staff Saïd Chengriha has instructed Gen Abdelaziz Medjahed to set up a committee of experts to deliver new proposals.
Deprived of its shares in the Algerian gas field Ain Tsila, the British junior formerly known as Petroceltic has enlisted the help of a star arbitrator to explore taking action against the Algerian national oil company Sonatrach.
The US defence giant, which cut short a major contract to supply equipment to an armoured brigade headed by Muammar Gaddafi's son, Khamis, in 2011, is looking to recover its contractual guarantees. It has just won a new round in its battle with the Libyan state before the British Supreme Court.
