The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has for months been using the services of a discreet Israeli firm for his close protection. The company is also helping train soldiers from the DRC's elite Garde Républicaine.
Ibrahim Magassa, chair of Algest Consulting, is advising the Ghanaian government in its talks with international backers to ease the country's debt. He joins a handful of corporate banks and firms already working with the president.
Since 2023, attacks and kidnappings have multiplied in Zamfara in northwestern Nigeria. Efforts to rein in criminal gangs have been hampered by the bad blood between the governor and his predecessor.
The newly elected PM has taken the time to compose a government partly under his control. While ministries with sovereign powers remain the president's prerogative, Ould Djay has taken charge of the country's productive sectors and the priority youth portfolio.
Nigeria's National Security Advisor Nuhu Ribadu, tasked by the head of state to prepare the next presidential campaign, is courting opposition heavyweights. Two governors, in the north and southeast of the country, are being targeted.
The former head of government and unsuccessful candidate in March's presidential election is about to make his political return official with a rally on 9 September in Dakar that follows several weeks of intense negotiations.
With just a few days to go before the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, the European and American blocs are struggling to speak with one voice as the number of conflicts in Africa grows and Western donor funding dries up.
The recent adoption of a supposedly more liberal media law has done little to curb threats faced by journalists in Burundi. Amid a precarious economic climate, President Évariste Ndayishimiye's administration continues to clamp down on the press.
A dozen energy firms including majors Shell and TotalEnergies are competing to buy the Portuguese group's licence and rights to operate in the largest discovery ever made in the Orange Basin off the Namibian coast.
The local mayor and companies working on the dam project, which will supply Zimbabwe's second-largest city with water, are hoping the US International Development Finance Corp will come on board despite sanctions against the president and other key actors.
The seasoned Algerian diplomat, who left France in July after being recalled from the embassy following Emmanuel Macron's approval of Morocco's autonomy plan for the Western Sahara, is set to be appointed ambassador to Portugal.