A Trump Hotel and Tower apartment, a building in Miami, the presidential Falcon... After failing to reach an agreement with the Congolese head of state, businessman Mohsen Hojeij, who is suing Brazzaville for €1.2bn, is now after the presidential family's property.
The economist and secretary-general of the government, Mariam Mahamat Nour, is tipped to become Chad's ambassador to the UK, Benelux and the EU.
Having largely provoked the latest changes to the cabinet line-up, President Tedodoro Obiang Nguema's favourite child and presumed successor failed to persuade his father to go with his choices.
The Nigerian mines ministry is working on a strategy to start mining and exporting baryte, a mineral used to protect oil and gas exploration wells in countries where the oil industry is less developed than its own.
Operators of the Grand Tortue-Ahmeyim and Sangomar fields will have their accounts subjected to two years of scrutiny by a little-known Senegalese audit firm that managed to see off competition from PwC, Mazars and Baker Tilly.
President Weah's pet cause, getting oil exploration back on track, is being dampened by the on-going health crisis but this has not stopped him from selecting the local firms that foreign oil firms would need to team up with.
As Ouattara's campaign for a third mandate continues full steam ahead, causing alarm bells to ring in Paris, the Ivorian head of state's secretary general, Patrick Achi, is working to defuse the sparks.
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic and the suspension of numerous air links between the United States and Africa, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues to deport illegal African immigrants to their countries of origin.
The Sovereign Council, Sudan's ruling body since the fall of Omar al-Bashir, is negotiating with Russia to replenish its weapons stockpiles.
The United States is to call in private contractors to draft a new strategy for the Madagascan navy. In this way, it hopes to obtain strategic support in the Indian Ocean and steal a march on France in an area where the European country has traditionally played a dominant role.
Although the US has now imposed sanctions on Zimbabwean businessman Kuda Tagwirei, adding further pressure to Great Dyke Investments, the JV's Russian partners have not lost sight of their goals for its Darwendale platinum project, even as other international sanctions loom.
As France's new ambassador to Tunisia prepares to take up his post, his predecessor, Olivier Poivre d'Arvor, plans to stay in the country, where he will continue to play a role in economic and cultural affairs.
