Covid oil blues prompt Malabo and Libreville's ruling families to seek help from the Gulf.
MONUSCO, the United Nations stabilisation mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), will shortly have a completely new management team.
Oppenheimer Partners, an investment fund owned by the eponymous South African billionaire family, has added Genser Energy group to its ultra-selective asset portfolio.
The heavyweight tactics used by Nigeria to obtain the key post of commissioner for peace and security have blocked the process of filling the last remaining seats on the African Union Commission
Last year was defined by the Covid-19 pandemic and presidential election preparations. This year, mining firms in Burkina Faso are hoping the issue of late VAT credit payments will be back on the agenda.
Uganda Airlines's decision to start operating direct flights to Dubai coincides neatly with President Yoweri Museveni's drive to attract Emirati investors to Uganda.
Already compromised by divisions within the SSOMA in December, peace talks between the South Sudanese government and the last fighters warring with Juba have now been split between Rome and Nairobi.
France, which is in close contact with the new authorities in Khartoum, along with its close ally in Africa, Egypt, is the country's biggest creditor and plans to play a leading role at the conference.
Operator in Tanzania of block 2 on which more than 20 trillion cubic feet (tcf) have been discovered, the Norwegian major Equinor has decided to write down the book value of its Tanzanian assets by $982m.
Crypto asset specialist Apollo Fintech opened up in Mauritius at the end of January. The island's Economic Development Board has been trying to attract cryptocurrency companies since 2017.
The last Bouteflika-era minister of industry and former boss of the public holding company Agrodiv, Djamila Tamazirt, has left the board of COG La Belle just as she comes up for trial in two corruption cases.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has emerged as one of France's top diplomatic allies in Africa. But one of Egypt's creditors is raining on the parade.
In the last few years, upstream manager Abulgasem Shengher has become as indispensable as his boss Mustafa Sanalla and one of the faces of NOC around the world.
The Germany travel operator TUI has begun to recapitalise its hotels in Morocco while speeding up the relocation of some of its French activities to Casablanca.
