Ghana produces, just behind Ivory Coast, almost 45% of the world's cocoa. At the head of this "brown gold" boon is the Ghana Cocoa Board, or "Cocobod", headed since 2017 by Joseph Boahen Aidoo, a loyal supporter of President Nana Akufo-Addo.
Now that a DRC court has affirmed the Belgian mining engineer's rights over three exploration permits contested by a Dan Gertler-linked company, he has teamed up with mining veteran Trudon Katende Muya to see what's in the ground there.
The founder of the Express Union money transfer service, Albert Kouinche, whom billionaire and fellow Bandjoun native Victor Fotso kept under his wing for many years, has been badly hit by competition from mobile money services.
To avoid having to go to court over their acquisition of a luxurious residence in Florida in 2012, Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso and his wife have been trying for three months to negotiate a settlement with the US judicial authorities.
As a result of France's decision to end Operation Barkhane in the Sahel, Ivory Coast will be called on to play a more important role in France's reorganised military presence in West Africa. A new defence attache is to be appointed in Abidjan to boost military cooperation between both countries.
The breach of trust complaint filed on 20 June by Idriss Déby's former advisor Tidjani Thiam relates to a case that's also of interest to French investigators who have spent years looking into transactions carried out by Areva's mining division.
The death of the Tanzanian head of state John Magufuli on 17 March and the arrival in power of vice-president Samia Suluhu Hassan have fuelled the hopes of many military shipyards.
More than a decade after being slapped with US sanctions, an Iranian state-owned company still owns 15% of Namibia's largest uranium mine. The aging site, operated by China National Nuclear Corp since 2019, is expected to be shut down in 2025.
On 9 July, after months of preparation, the Cairo-based trade finance institution Afreximbank finally registered its credit insurance subsidiary AfrexInsure in Mauritius, with the help of trustee Ocorian.
Preliminary hearings in Khalifa Haftar's three civil war-crimes trials in Virginia will take place this and next month. The Libyan National Army's lawyer is a longtime Trump backer, while opposing councils are close to the Democrats.
Morocco's foreign minister Nasser Bourita is banking on the stalled UN process and failure of the Berlin conference in June to take the lead on resolving the Libyan conflict. This would allow Rabat to kill two birds with one stone by overtaking its arch-rival Algeria and taunting its diplomatic foe Germany.
Algeria and African Union members' diverging views on a growing number of issues promise to complicate matters further regarding the country's bid for the AU education commissioner post, set aside for a North African country.
Freshly reappointed on 1 July following Aymen Benabderrahmane's government reshuffle, housing minister Mohamed Tarek Belaribi has decided to relaunch the El Menea new town project, first mooted in the mid-2000s and then abandoned.
