The presence of Oromo activists and fighters in Kenya has become a cause for concern for the Ethiopian prime minister, who in August stepped up efforts against the outlawed Oromo Liberation Army.
A deposit deemed exhausted, a company dissolved in Wyoming, and commitments never fulfilled: the DRC's finance inspectorate is taking a close look at the US rapper Akon's adventures in the mines of Haut-Katanga province.
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, MINUSCA, is increasing the capacities of the contingents already stationed in the country.
Georgy Smirnov, the new managing director of the Russian gold company, travelled discreetly to Burkina Faso's capital to try and reach an agreement with Ibrahim Traoré's junta on its gold exports and the future of its Taparko, Bissa and Bouly sites.
Le Service européen pour l'action extérieure planche depuis le mois d'octobre sur un vaste plan de soutien en faveur des Forces armées mauritaniennes.
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto just approached UN Capital Development Fund for help developping projects for the local population around the enormous Simandou iron deposit in Guinea.
In order to successfully renegotiate France's defence cooperation treaty with Djibouti, the French foreign ministry has been relying in recent weeks on a special envoy.
Ferrum Mining's abandonment of a project to revive a state flagship has led to the suspension of all activity. At the heart of the dispute between the Russian firm and Antananarivo is the company's inability, since Andry Rajoelina's election, to access permits with high chromium potential.
The government's African Renaissance and International Cooperation Fund was intended as an instrument of soft power across the continent, but its track record is rather underwhelming.
During a visit to Tunis, Libya's prime minister offered to pay off in instalments debts totalling some €250m. But no major oil or finance deals were clinched.
General Emballage has signed a partnership with cement manufacturer Lafarge Algeria to recycle part of the company's paper waste.
Algeria is to set up a new agency to manage frozen, seized or confiscated assets as part of its plans to fight corruption. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune told his ministers in a recent cabinet meeting that he wanted the project to move ahead quickly.
