The Israeli diamond dealer is trying to counter the effects of US sanctions on his Congolese companies and is hoping to get a new extension on his oil permits.
On 18 April, Fidele Andjoua, the brother of Gabon's former president Omar Bongo and Ndjobi grand master, died and was buried shortly after in Franceville. His son, a presidential advisor, has replaced him at the head of this traditional ritual widely practised in Haut-Ogooué, the Bongo family stronghold.
In March 2020, a decision was made to privatise the Central African Republic public gem buying office Comigem declared bankrupt years ago. A buyer was found but since then everything has gone quiet.
Ouagadougou is determined to disclose the identities of minor shareholders in Burkina Faso's mining companies, much to the dismay of the political class.
The Cape Verde government in April authorised the construction of two new luxury hotels, despite the fact that tourism in the country has come to an almost complete standstill due to the pandemic.
The Senegalese company Arezki Group's bid of just under $63m has beaten off China's Sinohydro to bag a contract to rehabilitate a 73 km stretch of road in the centre of the country.
The key presidential affairs ministerial portfolio has been given to Barnaba Marial Benjamin, one of President Salva Kiir's staunchest loyalists. He partly owes his plum post to a pair of powerful patrons, who may well call in the favour down the line.
João Lourenço's anti-corruption record has taken another blow after one of his closest advisers, Isaac dos Anjos, was charged with misusing funds from the state-owned Sonango oil firm to build luxury property.
A recent tax audit of Ylias Akbaraly's Sipromad highlighted the group's strong tobacco sales and that these had been undervalued for three years in a row.
In the court case between Portuguese power company Aenergy and Angolan authorities regarding the termination of the $1b turbines contract, the latter did not hesitate to point out its opponent's double speak before the court of the Southern District of New York.
It may be up to the Presidential Council to appoint Libya's military chief of staff, but the legitimacy of Mohamed Al Haddad, whom the previous government put in that post, is being questioned by eastern authorities.
Mahamat Idriss Déby, the new strongman of N'Djamena, wants to prevent rebel forces forming an alliance with the Toubou tribes whose homeland straddles Chad and Libya.
Technical disagreements between Tunisia's interior minister and The Armored Group have delayed the delivery of vehicles destined for the police and national guard.
