The Congolese president counts a handfull of Israeli entrepreneurs in his inner circle.
Although it has recently invested in offshore drilling in the Gulf of Guinea, the Western world's biggest oil company is on a downward slide.
In the wake of the Qatar Investment Authority "fake loan" and the global health crisis, several senior executives have deserted the Nigerian junior oil company Lekoil, leaving just a hardened few behind.
Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris's firm La Mancha is considering whether to increase or decrease its investment in the operator of two Ghanaian gold mines, Golden Star Resources, with the threat of a class action in the US hanging over the mining company.
The crisis provoked by the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a sharp fall in property prices in the principality, where many African leaders and oligarchs have invested a part of their fortunes.
The current deputy director of the French army's human resources policy department, General Marc Conruyt, is set to replace Pascal Facon as head of Operation Barkhane this summer.
The Ivorian president had been due to install a "campaign" government to prepare for the elections but Amadou Gon Coulibaly's unexpected departure for Paris has forced him to review his plans.
Following a board meeting held in January, China Gezhouba Group Co (CGGC) has decided to set up a branch in Abidjan, which was entered onto the company register of the Ivorian capital in mid-March.
The political opponents of the Ethiopian prime minister are seeking to prevent him from postponing the elections originally scheduled for August.
The governor of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), Patrick Njoroge, is actively searching for ways of preventing small Kenyan businesses from going under in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis.
France has turned to the Franco-Luxembourg firm to monitor Turkish vessels suspected of supplying arms to the west of Libya without waiting for the launch of Europe's Irini mission to enforce the embargo.
After having been sidelined at national airline Royal Air Maroc, Habiba Laklalech has quietly joined the board of the industrial holding company controlled by former tourism minister Adil Douiri
Algeria's new president Abdelmadjid Tebboune has replaced directors who were appointed when Bouteflika was still in power.
