The Nigerian trading company is far from being unanimously popular in Juba where it has powerful allies but also many critics.
While tensions continue to rise between Moïse Katumbi and Pascal Beveraggi's camps over ownership of the assets of mining services company NB Mining Africa, it has been business as usual at the Ruashi copper mine.
Still a big mining player in southern Africa and busy with sugarcane in his native Mauritius, Jean-Raymond Boulle, who did well in a wartorn Congo in the late 1990s, has set up a new company to expand his horizons, seemingly into northern Europe.
The membership of the United Nations' Democratic Republic of Congo expert group has been renewed. Several citizens of European Union member states have joined the group.
Umaro Sissoco Embalo was the only foreign head of state to attend the inauguration of Mali's transitional president Bah N'Daw on 25 September. Embalo is trying to strengthen his relationship with Bamako - with Malian businessman Aliou Boubacar Diallo's help.
This summer, the International Monetary Fund conducted an audit of the cocoa sector. The upshot is that the Conseil Café Cacao has severed all ties with those close to power who have not settled outstanding debts from previous cocoa harvests.
After three Americans including a soldier were killed in an attack on the Manda Bay camp in Kenya in January, the US Air Force is to use private operators to enhance its intelligence-gathering capabilities in the Horn of Africa and Niger.
Confronted with the Chinese steamroller, the diplomat Ajay Kumar is pulling out all the stops to promote Indian companies in Uganda, especially in the protected defence and pharmaceutical sectors.
The logistics arm of the French company has been caught off-guard by the decision to maintain restrictions on foreign investment in logistics in Ethiopia.
To try to limit the impact of the recession which is looming after several months of public health crisis, the South African government is banking on the prospect of gas revenues to come and has rolled out the red carpet for Total.
A German consortium, comprising engineering firm Gauff and construction companies QG Konstruktion and Inzag Germany, won a new contract from the Angolan Ministry of Construction and Public Works in mid-September.
Tunisia's new energy minister Salwa Sghaier has rather unwittingly launched a new tender for the construction of solar energy plants to provide a total output of 70MW. To revive investors' interest, she may align the approval process with that of concessions.
Mohammed VI recently purchased the impressive Parisian property that previously belonged to a Saudi royal family member.
