After several recent discoveries by Shell and TotalEnergies, the Italian major ENI is working on all fronts with the Namibian authorities to invest in offshore permits. Asian companies also have an eye on the zone.
Bintou Keita, the head of the UN mission in the DRC, MONUSCO, will travel to New York on 29 March to report to the UN Security Council on the current state of play.
Part of the organisation of the One Forest Summit held in Libreville was subcontracted to Michelle Lassus' French PR agency Art Vision System, which had already organised several meetings held by Ali Bongo in 2016
The UN mission's human rights team will soon be publishing its findings regarding events in the Malian village of Moura last March, when between 200 and 600 civilians are thought to have been killed. The report points the finger directly at the Malian army and its Wagner allies.
La secrétaire d'Etat française chargée du développement, de la francophonie et des partenariats internationaux, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, se rendra du 29 au 30 mars à Lomé, où elle devrait rencontrer le président togolais, Faure Gnassingbé.
The Swiss-Italian lawyer will today be shooed into a third four-year presidential term at the annual congress of world football's governing body in Kigali.
Frédéric Alland, head of Alland & Robert, will travel to Sudan on 19 March. The French gum arabic giant shares, with its French competitor Nexira, over half the Sudanese market for the acacia tree resin.
The Angolan president is continuing to revamp his diplomatic network around the world, with the heads of the main embassies expected to include technocrats, politicians and people close to foreign minister Tete António.
The Botswana Defence Force is in talks with India's state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) with a view to acquiring several of its Tejas fighter planes.
The discreet businessman has for several years been managing the luxurious two-storey flat of Mohammed VI's cousin, Prince Moulay Ismail. He has now joined the board of the prince's property company.
More than four months on, the accord to combat illegal migration signed by the European Union and Egypt is starting to take concrete shape.
