With the new government in place, chairman of state-run National Oil Corp (NOC) Mustafa Sanalla's days may be numbered. But he still has cards up his sleeve.
A subsidiary of the Emirati Ghantoot Group, which is in conflict with Monaco Resources in Guinea, has reached a deal with the national mining infrastructure agency ANAIM to develop routes to evacuate bauxite produced in southern and central regions.
Chief of staff Said Chengriha has travelled to Moscow to clinch an astronomical arms deal, worth up to $7bn. In discussions with the Russian defence minister, he also outlined a possible Algerian intervention in the Sahel, starting with Mali.
Delegations from several African armies were in attendance at the fifth Sofins (Special Operations Forces Innovation Network Seminar) event held from 29 June to 1 July at Souge camp near Bordeaux.
In early June, the Saudi deputy defence minister Khalid bin Salman informed his counterparts at the G5 Sahel (Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Chad) that Saudi Arabia will be disbursing €100m in aid to the Sahelian force by 2022.
The German academic Annette Weber, who takes on her new role on 1 July, will have her work cut out for her as she surveys a region marked by the conflict in Tigray, a complex election in Somalia and Sudan's fraught transition.
Delayed by the fallout from the pandemic and other factors, works on extending Rwanda's electricity grid are now due to be completed in July 2022.
The president's inner circle is wary of the political ambitions of Africa's new judo boss Siteny Randrianasoloniaiko, who is seen as a Russian proxy and has a foot in both the sporting and political worlds.
The firm, one of the few foreign investors producing diamonds in Angola, has been slow to receive revenues from operations at the Lulo site, known for its impressive gems and its abundance of prized pink diamonds.
Delivered in 2019 by Lancaster 6, the firm owned by the Australian pilot Christiaan Durrant, the three Super Pumas of Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army had been confined for two years to their hangars before miraculously emerging last month to take their maiden flight.
Algiers's extradition request for former Sonatrach CEO Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour, a French and Algerian binational, puts the UAE leadership in a tight diplomatic spot.
The US junior Hunt Oil is actively seeking a partner to take over its exploration projects in a fraught climate, with the Tunisian authorities in a panic over the scale of the withdrawal of exploration companies.
