The Dubai Diamond Exchange currently handles 90% of diamonds produced in Angola, and it wants things to stay that way. It is taking steps it hopes will prevent Luanda's mining sector reforms from reducing its market share.
Several members of Félix Tshisekedi's entourage are implicated in the controversy surrounding the re-election of the president of the Fédération des entreprises du Congo.
Nicole Janine Roboty, who replaced economy minister Jean-Marie Ogandaga on 9 December, has inherited an explosive situation among staff at the ministry's various department. Tax and customs staff are in battle mode after having had their bonuses indexed on the amount of money they recover for the state.
Operators active in Ghana could play a decisive role in the state-owned GNPC's battle with its gas branch GNGC over the country's natural gas resources.
TR Equipement recently supplied Aeraccess observation drones to the Malian armed forces and is also working with Dronengel to train local personnel, thereby promoting a trio of French security firms on the back of Malian funding.
The booming Ivorian gold sector has succeeded in attracting a new player that is already well known in African mining circles: Canada's B2Gold Corp.
French former president Nicolas Sarkozy is due in Abidjan on 14 December to attend the swearing-in of newly re-elected Alassane Ouattara
Influential in Lisbon and Maputo, Nazim Ahmad, the Aga Khan's top diplomat, is weighing in on resolving the conflict in Cabo Delgado.
As the countries of southern and eastern Africa look to resurrect their ailing tourist industries, a leading player in high-end safaris in Africa, Wilderness Safaris, is increasingly using Mauritius as a launchpad for its business ventures.
Once a favourite with the government, Atlas Mara, owned by former Barclays boss Bob Diamond, has pulled out of Banque populaire du Rwanda.
South Sudan's president and the number two in Sudan's Sovereign Council are both troubled by a warlord who has taken refuge in the other's country. The two leaders have been working on a quid pro quo solution.
Antananarivo's anti-corruption unit has secured the arrest of several former top managers at the national electricity supplier Jirama, including the man whom its current CEO Vonjy Andriamanga wanted to appoint as his number two. But the affair has also drawn in the consortium SMTP owned by the industrialist Danil Ismaël.
The chairman of the Tunis stock exchange and a business lawyer are in the running for the top job at the CTACI, which has been growing in influence as its network expands.
Nothing seems to be going the way of Vigil Grup, the security firm owned by the retired Republican Guard colonel Ahmed Assassi.
