Nigeria secured additional financing from the Saudi Arabian public finance institution, the Islamic Development Bank, last month. The country has gradually increased its stock in the bank in recent years to now sit as one of its main shareholders.
Gabon's presidential family had until now been blissfully unaware that it does not actually own the two Boeings and Bombardier Global that it uses to jet around. After recently learning otherwise, it is having trouble working out who does control the planes.
Only the very few projects that are backed by foreign loans have survived the Covid-19 pandemic. Congo's worn-out government has simply stopped paying all other construction firms.
Conrad Clauson, the Norwegian head of Coastal Energy, is doing all he can to get in on the Okwok development.
Golden Star's lawyers have named the insurance companies they say might have to settle the gold company's costs should it lose a US class action linked to its activities in two Ghanaian mines.
French firm Idemia is due to start registering voters on 10 June before updating the electoral roll. Opposition parties and the international community will be watching closely.
India's Trade World Exim has decided to expand into the Guinean bauxite mining and trading market, in which Asian groups are already dominant.
The World Bank's Compliance Advisor Ombudsman highlights IFC's delays in responding to labour rights violations during the build of the Dujagali hydropower plant.
South Africa's energy ministry is struggling to find hydrocarbon experts among its civil servants to help set up the new national petroleum company, but it is reluctant to turn to the private sector or recruit internationally.
Businessmen Maminiaina Ravatomanga and Naina Andriantsitohaina are exasperated by the president's herbal cure for Covid-19 and are exploring other political avenues.
The energy minister has been wrangling with his opposite numbers at industry and investments over transmission levies on energy generated by private sector solar and wind power plants.
The Libyan National Army has been forced to leave behind several hundred tonnes of equipment delivered by air bridge by the United Arab Emirates.
Beer giant Castel's swallowing of market-leading beverage firm NCA Rouiba has yet to receive the government's green light. Frosty relations between Paris and Algiers are likely to further complicate matters.
