With elections scheduled for 2023, the transport minister is stepping up investments, riding on projects set in motion by the previous government.
A company in which China Railway is a shareholder has taken over a subcontract at the Tenke Fungurume copper-cobalt mine. The contract was the subject of a dispute between the mine operator and its former subcontractor.
On 23 December, the Central African president Faustin-Archange Touadéra is due to meet Angolan and Rwandan heads of diplomacy and review the peace process roadmap, as part of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR).
African E&P may have focused on the south of the continent lately, but the west is still very much in the game.
The Ivorian presidency is drawing up plans for a government reshuffle. It is likely to include the merging of some ministries and reducing the number of ministers and secretaries of state, which currently stands at 41.
Ivory Coast has new rules that oblige international operators to award 20% of their cocoa bean supply contracts with confectionary manufacturers to Ivorian producers. But the sector's foreign giants have still dominated over local players in the 2021-2022 cocoa harvest.
Nigeria has decided to withdraw its bid for a non-permanent member seat on the UN Security Council for 2024-2025, leaving Sierra Leone alone in the running.
When he ousted the prime minister on 25 October, General al-Burhan chose to keep on board the government members of the rebel groups signatory to the Juba agreement, whose presence is proving troublesome for the prime minister as he picks out a new team.
By extending support to Uhuru Kenyatta's preferred presidential candidate, the oligarchs of the powerful Mount Kenya Foundation fear they will be dragged into funding his entire campaign.
As one of the few southern African states to have been excluded by Washington from its Democracy Summit, Zimbabwe has been conducting an intense communication campaign in recent weeks, touting its proximity to Beijing, one of President Mnangagwa's few international allies.
Thirty-six-year-old Wafae Jamali has been appointed as Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch's secretary general. She takes her place alongside several young and loyal lieutenants who have followed Akhannouch into his new realm.
The Italian manufacturer, which late last month attended the Air Power Symposium organised by Cairo, is expected to win a contract to supply its M-346 jet for use by Egyptian pilots training to fly Rafales, a second batch of which Cairo has just ordered.
Faisal Feituri, the Libyan businessman and lobbyist for Khalifa Haftar in the United States, is boosting his US networks with a new lobbying firm in Washington called Dolton Fonseca Group.
