Former Democratic secretary of state Madeleine Albright's consulting firm is increasingly influential in Africa, thanks to a network of carefully selected diplomats and business executives.
The freeze-out of Alex-Bernard Bongo, the president's half-brother who has run Gabon's digital infrastructure for the past ten years, is the sign of greater changes to come in the management of the country's networks.
Al Khaldiya, which is controlled by Kuwaiti interests, has revised its strategy for its Diecké iron ore project in southeastern Guinea. It has lowered its initial production target from 4m to 1.5m tonnes with the aim of getting the mine into operation more quickly.
Abidjan is abuzz with talk as Alassane Ouattara prepares his new cabinet, which could spell RHDP executive director Adama Bictogo's great comeback.
The contract to build the Damerjog oil refinery in Djibouti, destined to receive crude from South Sudan, has been given to a mystery company which has no experience whatsoever in this type of project.
Despite the market uncertainty caused by Covid-19, the Ugandan president has opted to organise a tender call to find a buyer for the Kilembe copper mine rather than negotiate a contract with an already known buyer.
An extraordinary summit meeting of Southern African Development Community states has failed to offer much-needed solutions to the growing security crisis in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province. Maputo's reluctance to accept foreign help has certainly played an important role.
The long European tour just made by Ethiopian deputy prime minister Demeke Mekonnen was intended to disarm the regime's critics and enable prime minister Abiy Ahmed Ali to complete his military programme in the Tigray region.
From 24 November to 4 December, the reputation of Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mauritius will lie in the hands of the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group, a body of the global money laundering watchdog FATF.
The governor of Cabo Delgado, Valige Tauabo, tries to persuade Saudi Arabia to help finance President Filipe Nyusi's war against jihadist rebels in his gas-rich province.
The ministry helped Rahal Boulgoute win construction contracts in Gambia and Guinea Bissau. Now the businessman wants to build a luxury diplomatic quarter in Rabat.
The sons of the late company founder Abdelkader Taïeb Ezzraïmi did not want to take on the daily running of the SIM group's strategic branches but will remain part of the family empire.
