Joe Biden's engagement with the Sahel has been heavily anticipated, especially given his predecessor Donald Trump was noted for his isolationism. He has been working on his approach to this region since early 2021 with a new Africa team.
The Central African Republic president appointed the former journalist in early December to help keep watch on his opponent Karim Meckassoua's movements. Moskit knows the former speaker of parliament very well.
The new Gécamines chairman, Alphonse Kaputo Kalubi, was for a long time sidelined by Albert Yuma, who has just been ousted from the helm of the state-owned mining company. It seems that the new managing director appointed at the same time was not a Yuma favourite either.
Less than three weeks after signing with Turkey's TAI and Baykar for unmanned aerial vehicles and observation aircraft, Niger is already thinking of acquiring two more MI-24 helicopters.
Nouakchott is determined to play its part in securing the offshore natural gas project Grand Tortue Ahmeyim and has contacted TKMS and Fincantieri shipyards about purchasing new patrol vessels. But its budget does not live up to its ambition.
The British-Dutch major will find it hard to sell its Nigerian subsidiary, SPDC, which is owed $1.2bn by the NNPC and is in dispute with it for more than double that amount.
Despite having been awarded exploration rights on the Tano Basin offshore block in July 2019, ENI and Vitol have so far been unable to agree terms with the Ghanaian energy ministry.
Tanzania's erstwhile primary trading partner China is still struggling to resurrect its business and diplomatic ties with Dodoma after the brutal hiatus of the Magufuli era.
Top lawyer Rizwan Desai, founding partner of the influential Gaborone law firm Desai Law Group, registered the company Mining and Power Resources on 29 November. He is the company's sole shareholder.
The nomination of Stephanie Williams as special adviser on Libya has for once brought pro- and anti-Haftar lobbyists into agreement. Both camps are against her return, laying the blame for the current political crisis on her.
The Franco-Tunisian businessman Mohamed Ayachi Ajroudi is to dissolve AES, the company through which he acted as a middleman in the Gulf. His grand plans in Tunisia and Libya have not worked out either.
The former FLN MP for Mascara, Abdelmalek Sahraoui, a key business figure of the Bouteflika era, has been in prison for corruption since April. His construction company Irrigout, run by his brother Omar Sahraoui, has however just won an important road contract.
