The Italian major ENI is working to consolidate its stature as Algeria's future leading private oil and gas producer. It is preparing to buy BHP Billiton's assets, as well as BP's.
The Chinese middleman Simon Cong was named in the Congo hold-up report on embezzlement by the Kabila family, and is about to be named in another investigation. He has recently expanded his mining interests in the DRC.
The Gabonese authorities are contesting the price Bouygues subsidiary Colas is charging to upgrade the sole road that provides access to the capital city.
The sale of two real estate assets belonging to Congo, to the benefit of Orange and Lebanese businessman Mohsen Hojeij's Commisimpex, is likely to be less lucrative than expected.
French defence industry giants, hoping to beat off stiff competition in Africa with solid support from Paris, used the Dakar Forum to cosy up to the continent's leaders and try to consolidate their positions.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will hold an official summit on 12 December and the Malian situation will be at the centre of discussions in which all the heads of state of the West African organisation are due to participate.
Enron Nigeria Power Holdings, a subsidiary of the defunct gas giant Enron, still has its eye on part of this sum.
The project to quadruple the capacity of the small 2MW Gogo hydropower plant in south-western Kenya (Migori County), on the border with Tanzania, has been given a major boost.
South Africa's Vutomi Mining, a subsidiary of John Teeling's Botswana Diamonds, has created a new Angolan investment structure. This comes as international investors are making a comeback in the country.
The concern shown by members of the UK parliament over human rights issues in Zimbabwe has infuriated President Emmerson Mnangagwa, members of his government and ZANU-PF officials.
The Chinese state construction giant and its subsidiary CRBC, in association with the Wison group, hope to snag the contract to build Morocco's first floating regasification unit (FSRU). The unit will allow the kingdom to import gas by ship, after Algeria shut down the GME pipeline.
Appointed as consul in Paris by President Saïed, the former Minister of the Interior Ridha Gharsallaoui will increase the surveillance of the Tunisian diaspora in France. A security attaché, Maher Addala, had already started work on this at the beginning of the summer, taking over from Lazhar Loungou.
