After months of bad blood between FIFA and some African federation members, the head of the international football organisation wants to take advantage of South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe's arrival at the head of the Confederation of African Football to exert greater control of the game on the continent.
Philippe de Moerloose, one of the wealthiest Belgians in the DRC, has been bought out of the cement plants he co-owned with West China Cement. The Chinese giant now aims to ramp up production and become a major player in the sector.
Allegations of embezzlement and over-invoicing at Congo Airways could not have come at a worse time for the national carrier, which is hoping to finalise the $272m purchase of four new airliners.
To push back against the often pro-Russian lobbies that are calling for MINUSCA contingents to withdraw from the CAR, the UN mission's communications team is seeking to boost its profile in the local press and in neighbouring Cameroon.
The finance minister recently signed a decree on the sharing of upstream oil fines between the various government departments, but the text raises numerous legal issues.
For the last year, the Nigerian president's chief of staff has been methodically appointing his inner circle to key diplomatic posts.
Guinean president Alpha Condé flew a delegation to Saint Petersburg to attend the 24th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) from 2-5 June.
Having already built the two residences of the Beninese president Patrice Talon, the Ivorian architects Issa Diabaté and Guillaume Koffi have been busy since the beginning of the year overseeing the building of Cotonou's maritime affairs centre.
Propelled into the limelight by the negotiations that resulted in an electoral agreement on 27 May, the Somalian prime minister Mohamed Hussein Roble is increasingly being seen as presidential material by certain regional leaders.
The governor of Cabo Delgado, Valige Tauabo, has set up a new entity to channel public funds to his province to stimulate the economy and combat the ongoing insurrection. But the new public company will also serve to enhance the governor's personal influence.
State-run BCL's upper management did not lose time when the company went into liquidation back in 2016. Many of them have combined their skills and banded together to make it big in Botswanan mining.
The Danish industrialist Carsten Wernberg-Moller, the owner and managing director of Scandi Roll, incorporated a firm called Scandi Mining. Its role will be to invest in mining exploration and production in Africa.
King Mohammed VI's private secretary is using a new company, FT View, to win urban billboard contracts in a sector where his FC Com group has come under fire.
The British Foreign Office is planning to organise a major conference on the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of armed groups active in Libya.
