Turkey's diplomats have been hard-wired to reject military rule ever since the failed 2016 coup attempt in Ankara, but they now find themselves having to make pragmatic choices with Guinea's new leaders to maintain an air of influence.
Illegal ore trading posts have been springing up in Lualaba after Richard Muyej took leave and his deputy Fifi Masuka has opted to avoid tensions until her position is more secure.
Drawing on solid experience working in African skies, the private Canadian and Bulgarian operators will soon be transporting troops for the peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic under General Traoré's command.
Nuru (formely Kivu Green Energy), a DRC electricity company which is already active in North Kivu where it manages two solar mini-off-grids, has plans to expand in the area to raise its total output to 15.
The Bretton Woods institution has committed to financing an ambitious project to beef up the West African Power Pool (WAPP). Niger, Senegal, Mauritania, Ivory Coast, and Mali are the main beneficiaries.
The private clinic located in the French capital and favoured by African VIPs, is facing a claim for "negligence" and "fraud" relating to its treatment of the late business tycoon Victor Fotso, from Cameroon, who died in the hospital on 19 March 2020.
The new agreement between KIFC and the Monetary Authority of Singapore enshrines President Kagame's ambition to emulate the Asian city-state, a global benchmark in offshore finance.
Although President Uhuru Kenyatta wants Kenya to play a leadership role on trade liberalisation in Africa, his trade minister, Betty Maina, is struggling to get trade talks going in Brussels and Washington.
Following the recent inauguration of the first diamond mine owned by a Mosotho, the government is looking for an independent diamond valuer to reduce reliance on selling prices decided by the mining companies. It is also considering raising the bar regarding the minimum local shareholding in foreign mining ventures.
The chairman of the Libyan national oil company was suspended then brought back in the space of ten days. The whole affair proved to be an act staged by prime minister Dabaiba with help from his ally, the vice minister of hydrocarbons Al Abbar.
Antonio Basolas, the Spanish company's boss, met Amina Benkhadra, Morocco's top official for hydrocarbons and mines, in Rabat to discuss the future of the Maghreb Europe gas pipeline. The project is under threat following the recent rift between Algeria and Morocco.
The foreign minister's major diplomatic reshuffle is aimed at restoring Algeria's pre-eminence in the Sahel and in the handling of the crisis in Libya, where arch rival Morocco is trying to muscle in.
Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Hassan Shoukry is set to appoint his deputy responsible for European affairs, Badr Ahmed Mohamed Abdelatty, to replace Khaled Aly el-Bakly as the head of Egypt's ambassador to the #EU.
