The government has granted a Chinese company a licence to extract coltan at an industrial scale. Its ambition is to compete with other African countries in supplying electronics giants.
The Central African Republic is preparing to overhaul its mining legislation. At the heart of the long-awaited reform is the creation of a controversial entity in control of all buying and selling of precious stones.
ExxonMobil's offloading of its stake in four shallow offshore licences, initiated in 2019, is attracting interest from several Nigerian firms backed by Western partners.
The speedboat manufacturer intends to establish itself in Ghana to gain a foothold in the Gulf of Guinea. It can build on several recent commercial successes in Uganda, DRC and Nigeria.
During a conference on Ivory Coast organized in Paris by Business France on July 12 at the Senate, the director of the consulting firm EY in Ivory Coast, Eric N'Guessan, spoke on behalf of his clients.
A hundred South Sudanese soldiers have just returned to Juba having undergone training in Ukraine. They'll form the core of the future special forces that the president wants.
Despite chronic insecurity in northeastern Kenya, where the Al Shabaab insurgency is active, Nairobi seems determined to press on with paving the two-lane road between the towns of Elwak and Rhamu in Mandera County.
After months of pressure, some mining firms in Zimbabwe are slowly accepting President Emmerson Mnangagwa's initiative and entering the nascent stock exchange. It's a calculation that is as much political as financial.
The British manufacturer of banknotes and official documents is pitching its virtual traceability solutions to Madagascar's government to help it fill its coffers.
On 15 July, Denis Sassou N'Guesso is due to receive a visit from Libyan Presidential Council president Mohamed el-Menfi. The two-day visit has been prepared by French parallel diplomacy specialist Jean-Yves Ollivier, who is a friend of the Congolese president.
Early last year, the businessman took over his jailed brother's car assembly and distribution business. Now he wants to get into mining.
US agricultural group Agrovision Corp is extending its activities from Peru to Morocco. This producer of fruit and vegetables - particularly avocados - created a subsidiary, AGV Morocco, on 7 June to distribute, sell and export its products.
