French major TotalEnergies has abandoned blocks A4 and C2 in Guinea's offshore, amid political instability and the need to reduce its exploration costs due to the pandemic.
Billionaire Andrew Forrest's Australian mining group has been racking up deals in Africa, and last week signed with Gabon to carry out studies on the Mount Belinga iron ore deposit and potentially relaunch a 20-year-old project.
Faustin Archange Touadéra is keen to capitalise on visibility at Dubai World Expo to promote investment opportunities in CAR.
A delegation of French parliamentarians led by MP Françoise Dumas, chairwoman of the Assembly's defence committee, is expected in Kinshasa in early Dec.
US-Emirati armoured vehicle manufacturer The Armored Group (TAG) has equipped the Nigerian police with three armoured vehicles to secure Borno State, in the north-east of the country. A total of twenty vehicles are to be delivered.
In addition to its three small plants in Senegal, Morrocan state-run OCP will soon build a new high-capacity plant, capable of supplying several countries in the area.
Abidjan is trying to place a new battalion within the UN mission in Mali (Minusma), where Ivory Coast already has 800 Blue Helmet peacekeepers
The tribal leader who instigated an uprising that precipitated General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's coup d'état, is on the verge of joining the country's new Sovereignty Council. In exchange for his participation, he is demanding that al-Burhan renege on the part of the Juba peace agreement that concerns the east of the country.
After many months of fruitless searching, the Australian firm Intra Energy Corporation has finally found a buyer for its majority stake in Tanzania's largest coal mine: a firm owned by Rostam Aziz, a local billionaire and former treasurer of the country's ruling party.
After lengthy proceedings, a Paris court has ruled in favour of Madagascan company Sipromad in the dispute pitting it against Egyptian tycoon Naguib Sawiris' Euronews TV channel, over the failed takeover of Africanews in 2019.
The law firm, which counts defence and cybersecurity companies among its clients, wants to become the go-to counsel for Israeli firms seeking to set up in Morocco.
The US Department of Justice has decided to boost the number of surveillance balloons it is installing in Tunisia under its ICITAP programme aimed at securing the very porous border with Libya.
