The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are jockeying to take control of ports that Egypt is privatising at both ends of the Suez Canal, though which 10% of the world's maritime trade transits.
Equatorial Guinea is preparing to appoint a new ambassador to France. Relations between the two countries have been especially strained since a French court condemned the vice president Teodorin Obiang Nguema in the so-called "ill-gotten gains" case.
President Ali Bongo is expected in London on 18 October for the flag-raising, the ceremony marking the country's entry into the Commonwealth, which Libreville officially joined at the Kigali summit in June.
ExxonMobil has given itself until the end of November to conclude the sale of its 40% stake in shallow offshore blocks OML 67, 68, 70 and 104 to junior Seplat. #Nigeria
The European Union (EU) and African Union (AU) joint committee is to convene in Brussels on 30 November.
Worried about the reputation of Kenya's financial sector, bank governor Patrick Njoroge is against plans to raise the minimum value of private banks' reportable transactions.
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The people injecting the most cash into the Lesotho general election campaign, local gangs, get much of their money from raiding disused gold mines in South Africa. These Basotho gangs are now threatening active mines, sparking tensions between Pretoria and Maseru.
Lawyers pleading for South Africa's Amari Resources have wasted no time in responding to Harare's request that the case against it be dismissed. The state still refuses to accept a Zambia supreme court ruling asking it to compensate the mining firm for the cancellation of nickel and platinum licences.
Egyptian President Abdelfattah al-Sisi's mega-project east of Cairo is still stalling due to a lack of buyers. The inauguration of the city in the middle of the desert has already been postponed several times.
Operations on Tala Hamza zinc and lead mine located near Béjaia were scheduled to start on 1 September, but new opposition, driven by local inhabitants who claim to lack valid property deeds, has stalled the launch for now.