The chairman of Libya's sovereign wealth fund will remain in office in exchange for a payment of one billion dollars to the government. The money is a godsend for Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba, who may also be able to place his allies in the fund's subsidiaries.
French authorities have rejected Cameroonian opposition leader and poet Maurice Kamto's visa application to attend a literary event near Paris.
The awarding of the Baomahun concession, Sierra Leone's most promising gold deposit, to FG Gold has surprised the country's business community and prompted a rift between parliament and the Freetown government.
The US-Ghanaian financier has managed to halt the regulator's lawsuit against him. Here's what's in the deal.
The Togolese telecom operator is in talks with the International Finance Corporation. Since its 2017 privatisation, shareholders Axian and ECP have been trying to turn it into a regional leader.
The Indian power transmission company is exploring opportunities in Guinea, despite having been excluded from a number of projects backed by international lenders over its perceived fraudulent practices in Egypt and the DRC.
The disappearance of nearly $129m from the accounts of the national bank at a time when the late president John Magufuli had fallen seriously ill has prompted his successor Samia Suluhu Hassan to embark on an overhaul of the financial institution.
With the date of the presidential election officially confirmed on Tuesday, alliances are gradually beginning to take shape. Said Deni is tempted to run, but at the risk of playing into the hands of the incumbent Farmajo.
With Angola's regional influence having faded in the twilight years of the Dos Santos era, President Lourenço has been working hard to recover lost ground by finding key regional appointments for his diplomats and spymasters.
Since his appointment in February, Zimbabwe's foreign minister has been concentrating on cultivating closer relations with Turkey and India to complement the country's longstanding alliances with China and Russia and lessen the impact of Western sanctions.
The Amsterdam-based accounting and tax services firm TMF has been assisting the South African company Singita, which rents out luxury safari lodges.
After testing two CNIM aerostats in the Aegean Sea, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency plans to deploy this surveillance equipment in North Africa to counter migratory flows.
Khalifa Haftar, who divides his time between Dubai and Cairo, has been holding numerous meetings with diplomats and top intelligence officers. In mid-June he talked at length with Abu Zaid Dorda, who served as Muammar Gaddafi's spy chief.
