The UN mission's new number two will oversee the disarmament and reintegration of militia forces as well as security sector reform, two crucial processes that for now are going nowhere.
As it ramps up its air operations against rebel groups in Libya at the same time as battling in the Sahel amid France's military drawdown there, Chad reckons France and the EU are falling short in their support.
A report on the Congolese parliament's finances highlights the real cost of its members' wages, totalling some $45m for 2020. It also counters the criticism of house speaker Jeannine Mabunda at the time of her dismissal in December.
Paul McDade needs to secure a first asset on the double so that he can launch his new company in style.
Al Madina, which makes ID cards and other documents for Central African Republic citizens, wants to snatch the biometric passport contract held since 20210 by compatriot Africard.
With his firm Seed Consultancy, former political adviser Jean-Paul Fabri is looking for business from African states. One of his avenues: his skills in economic policy and financial services, as his firm also does financial structuring for companies and the very wealthy.
The recent reorganisation of Guinea's mines ministry appears to have put it in charge once again of state-owned Soguipami. It also created several departments to help the country's key mining sector catch up with the modern world.
Gambia will have its eyes fixed on the results of FAR's drilling campaign on offshore block A2 expected by the end of the year.
Late last month Sudan returned the IMF's and the World Bank's fold, winning an initial $2.4bn loan as well as integration into the HIPC debt reduction initiative. Next week it is due negotiate a mammoth debt write-off package in the French capital.
The head of financial services at Africa Finance Corp (AFC), Sanjeev Gupta, will chair the first meeting in the United Arab Emirates of Invest Africa, a club founded by South African businessman Rob Hersov, on 13 July.
The Comoran president is trying to strengthen the surveillance capacities of his security forces in an attempt to curb the large-scale migration of his compatriots to the French island of Mayotte.
With the diamond sector battered by the coronavirus pandemic, Botswana giant Debswana is reportedly considering selling its Damtshaa mine, the smallest of its four operating sites.
The US justice department's counterterrorism division has revived its plan to acquire balloons to keep the border between Libya and Tunisia under surveillance. Following the failure of Lockheed Martin and TCOM, two other US firms are still in the running.
