The South African president's testimony to a friendly party ethics watchdog is a damage-limitation tactic, sources say.
The identity of the buyer of Tiger Resources and its Congolese copper mine at Kipoi has been settled for several months now, but a further dispute has recently arisen between the parties involved.
The United Nations is likely to pick a West African replacement for Guinean François Louncény Fall, who stepped down as head of the UN regional office in for Central Africa in June after six years in the role.
Fearing social unrest, the Nigerien president has chosen to keep fuel prices artificially low, despite pleas from SONIDEP's boss, who is worried about an increase in smuggling to border countries.
Last year Senegal lost its appeal against a UN tribunal's 2019 order that it pay a real estate magnate a quarter of a billion euros in compensation over his "illegally" seized assets. Dakar has since taken its case to a higher court on jurisdictional grounds.
The Norwegian firm has been stalling for two years on its DWT/CTP licence in Ghana. It has once again postponed submitting plans for the offshore Pecan field, citing the presence among its partners of the Russian company Lukoil, whose founder is under Western sanctions.
The Spanish company Swiftair began flying missions at the end of May for the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA, whose mandate has just been extended for a year by the Security Council.
Amid the opposition's boycott of parliament, several plans to ensure elections due later this year go smoothly are at a standstill. The rows centre on political party rules, the electoral calendar, and reform of the intelligence services, to which President Salva Kiir jealously clings.
Keen to take advantage of expanding African markets, India's state-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corp has since June been looking for a financially robust and experienced local partner to stock its lubricants in Kenya.
It's going from bad to worse for Spanish firms in Algeria, and the consequences of the diplomatic crisis between the two countries are most visible in the oil sector.
The Russian-Arab Cooperation Forum, initially scheduled to take place in Marrakech in November 2020 and then postponed for the first time to November 2021 at the request of Moscow, could finally be held in Cairo.