Nigeria, Djibouti and South Africa are among 12 countries to have called for continued collaboration between UNESCO and the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA. The re-election of Donald Trump in the US has raised doubts over the organisation's future.
The boat 'Chantal Biya' has been immobilised for months, racking up vast repair bills. It is still broken, however, and unable to clear sand from the port of Douala, preventing large container ships from docking there.
The president's special adviser on oil for more than 25 years, Gokana has been replaced by Stev Simplice Onanga, a close associate of the minister for hydrocarbons. It is a rare reshuffle within Denis Sassou-Nguesso's entourage.
The new military coordination body, which is modelled on the United States Africa Command, is working to reorganise France's presence on the continent. In addition to preserving military outposts in West and Central Africa, the project entails closer cooperation with a handful of other African states, some of which are English-speaking.
African governments have been slow in releasing the funds promised for the future African hydrocarbon bank. The project, led by Nigeria's Omar Farouk Ibrahim, is scheduled to launch in the first quarter of 2025, but only a portion of the financing it needs has been raised.
The Belgian businessman, who specialises in refining and exporting gold from the Great Lakes region, claims Rwanda owes him tens of millions of dollars in compensation. At the same time, he is battling to persuade the US and EU to lift their sanctions on him.
Laborinho was dismissed in early November officially because of his handling of the issue of fuel smuggling to the DRC. He had, however, made no bones of his ambitions to run in Angola's 2027 presidential election.
The leader of the Democratic Alliance party has just appointed a new ministerial liaison officer. This is the first step towards forming a ministerial team that is still sparse.
The Sumbe cement factory developer is claiming $100m in damages and unpaid bills from the Angolan state. Certain elements of the Sonangol-funded project are still shrouded in mystery a decade after its construction, not the least the final cost or its beneficiaries.