It was thanks to US mediation that the Kenyan president and the opposition leader agreed to talk over their differences amid mounting political tension. Once again, a US senator from Delaware played fence-mender.
The French oil major appears to have found a way out of the Central African Republic at last. The country's largest company is selling its assets to Tamoil, a Libyan company that is based in Europe.
The Congolese president's official and shadow advisers are preparing for the presidential election scheduled for December, despite the possibility that it will be postponed. They hope to ward off a potential political crisis and secure another term for the incumbent.
Ottawa will have to show a little more patience before attempting to initiate talks again about the Anglophone Crisis. Its assistant deputy minister for global affairs, Peter MacDougall, was expected in Cameroon at the end of March, but Yaoundé ended up cancelling at the last minute.
Ibrahim Traoré is determined to push through a gold refinery project to generate much-needed revenue, and the Ministry of Mines is drafting a bill that would make it mandatory for gold producers to refine part of their local production in the country.
Just weeks before Nigeria's president elect Ahmed Bola Tinubu takes office, the state-owned oil company NNPC is reorganising its crude oil trading to maximise profits.
Thales representatives in Ivory Coast are currently chasing after a contract for military radios that could be worth tens of millions of euros.
The deadly clashes in the east of Somaliland have sparked criticism from the US administration, to which Hargeisa has responded carefully, anxious not to jeopardise the diplomatic progress it made with the US in 2022.
The Angolan president has completed the revamp of his diplomatic network with a fresh round of ambassadorial appointments. The new envoys to the United States, South Africa, Austria, Norway, Serbia and Zambia include politicians, technocrats and regime loyalists.
Control of the militias is central to Libyan prime minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba's grip on power. He recently managed to bring several of them to the negotiating table with their former enemies in the east, but some still rely on antagonistic positions.
Building Ain Bida's industrial park will cost close to €18m. The project is funded by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Fès-Meknès region.
