The French major no longer believes that it can restart its operations in Cabo Delgado in the next few months. Despite the presence of Rwandan soldiers, it has no way of guaranteeing even minimal security for several hundred contracted personnel on the LNG site.
While the head of Congolese diplomacy travelled to Arusha to finalise membership of the East African Community, the regional organisation's military leaders are preparing to send troops. The Congolese army chief of staff signed a confidential document with his counterparts detailing it.
Themiis, a French military training speciaist, is due to inaugurate its maritime security training centre in Brazzaville in September. The launch of the future regional institute for advanced river and maritime studies has been supervised by Congo PM Anatole Collinet Makosso.
For the eighth time now, Accra has extended the deadline for the operator of the DWT-CTP block to submit its development plan, now due by 30 September.
Some officials in Burkina Faso have expressed dismay at Ottawa's suspension of its direct budgetary support in the wake of the coup d'état. But Canada, the country's leading foreign investor through its mining companies, is maintaining the bulk of its aid.
After welcoming the South African head of state in Abidjan in December, Alassane Ouattara is due to travel to Pretoria on 22 July for an official visit. Trade relations and a draft defence agreement are on the cards.
The heads of Ghana Cocobod and Ivory Coast's Conseil Café Cacao were in Accra last week to refine their joint strategy in the face of the industry's trading giants and industrialists, who are considering diversifying their supplies elsewhere.
Held up in Ankara by President Erdogan, the Somali president did not arrive in time for the meeting in Nairobi, despite the pressing nature of the topics up for discussion.
The French oil distribution group wants to make amends with the Kenyan authorities after they accused it in April of using Kenya as a landing pad to export its products to its East African subsidiaries.
To help the underfunded National Prosecuting Authority deal with the Zondo cases, the Department of Justice has called on the private sector. But discussions are currently at a standstill.
Despite being allowed to reopen a few weeks after the authorities obliged them to halt work, the two global auditing giants will put an end to their consulting activities in Algeria. Their competitors KPMG and PwC are not yet concerned.