The Kenyan president is relying on a powerful businessman from central Kenya to deliver support from a network of TV and radio stations. Other influential people are expected to join him.
At least three French former officers now working in the private sector are providing logistical support to the Congolese army in the east - a source of embarrassment at the highest levels of the French state.
The Fondation Prospective et Innovation, run by the former French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, is to dispatch a business delegation to Brazzaville from 27 to 29 March.
The revenues of the company that manages the state's mining interests have increased significantly, particularly in the bauxite sector, and it is now directly selling some of the minerals it extracts, in particular to the Chinese.
France's highest court of appeal ruled on 1 February that charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity brought against the Ivorian opposition leader Guillaume Soro are legally valid.
The French engineering firm Ginger-Burgeap has been selected to pick an operator for an electrification project in rural Mauritania.
Less than a month before a potentially crucial vote on the future of a UN commission on human rights in Ethiopia, the government has launched consultations on post-civil war justice arrangements.
With European funds, the French defence parastatal Economat des Armées (EDA) is to supply eight Zodiac Milpro boats to reinforce Mozambique's coastguard. The service provider is muscling in on a security cooperation sector hitherto dominated by Expertise France.
When they gather in Brussels later this month, the European Union's 27 foreign ministers will be looking to reconcile their divergent views over Tunisia, with IMF loans, the crackdown on the opposition and the migrant crisis all on the agenda.
Morocco's Mohammed VI is expected to travel to Madagascar next week, the king's first visit to the country since 2016
Envoyé spécial des Nations unies pour le Sahara occidental, le diplomate italo-suédois Staffan de Mistura doit organiser tout au long de la deuxième quinzaine du mois de mars une série de consultations à New York.
