Helicopters currently stationed in Libya could soon been deployed to Mozambique's oil-rich province where a jihadist insurrection continues to smoulder. The aircraft were reportedly supplied by Durrant's firm Lancaster 6.
Thanks to a new hydrocarbons code, new contracts gushed forth for Gabon in 2019 but the pandemic is forcing operators to delay their investments, frustrating at a stroke the country's best efforts.
President Muhammadu Buhari's new chief of staff Ibrahim Gambari could not have arrived at a better time to help the chairman of the African Development Bank with his bid for a second mandate while the United States pushes for an external probe into his handling of the institution.
French renewables firm Africa Ren, which is finalising the finance and choice of contractor for its plant in Burkina Faso, could break ground later this year.
With the creation of a state railway company, Senegal's minister of infrastructure and land transport is opening the door to World Bank funding to rehabilitate the Dakar-Bamako line.
China's LingHang Group logistics investment fund leaves Dar es Salaam to focus on Zanzibar as its east African gateway for Chinese industry.
Though Paris put on hold negotiations over the sale of 18 helicopters and two Airbus C-295 cargo planes to the Ethiopian Air Force at the start of the year, German diplomats may succeed in putting the project back on the table.
A review of the cost of the environmental protections that the Zambian government promised to introduce at the Konkola and Mopani copper mines when it privatised them in the early 2000s is set to get under way.
Sheikh Hamad Al Nahyan has become the new business partner of Angolan financier and ex-minister's son N'Gunu Tiny.
Angola has passed a key milestone in the restructuring of its mining sector with the new organisation of its national regulatory agencies. A wave of privatisations is to follow as President Lourenço continues to push for a more investor-friendly environment.
Much appreciated by Algiers during the era of former president Bouteflika, it's time for French ambassador Xavier Driencourt to move on. As he readies to leave in the next few months, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has gone on the offensive against Paris in a calculated populist move.
