The Luanda government was to organise an international tender to help local blenders secure fertilisers from overseas in order to boost the agricultural sector. After getting off to such a slow start, its seems highly unlikely it will be finalised in the short term.
The recently created Houston firm Kariya Energy has set its sights on Gabon and Nigeria. It just hired a consulting firm with very strong connections in Africa.
Angolan president João Lourenço, who backs the rival to Guinea Bissau president Embalo, finally decided to move his ambassador, who for months had faced pressure to leave.
The state-owned Bpifrance is set to finance leading African asset managers into its Averroès IV 'fund of funds.'
Awarded to the Chinese company CRSG, construction of the Kalounayes road loop is designed to end Casamance's geographical isolation and make it a major transit area for neighbouring states.
The billionaire Lebanese-Nigerian businessman once favoured by Sani Abacha and Goodluck Johnathan is the main backer of France's Africa 2020 cultural festival which opened in Paris last week with "Le Vol du Boli", an opera by British musician Damon Albarn.
The American oil major is currently examining the option of holding on to Noble Energy's Equatorial Guinean and Cameroonian assets.
President Ivan Duque has ordered his diplomats in Europe to try to advance the case of Colombian nun Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez, who was kidnapped by jihadists in February 2017 in Mali.
As part of the Go Blue project to improve Kenya's maritime security capacity, Expertise France is to send in advisers to help speed up deployment of the country's coast guard service.
Co-operative Bank boss Gideon Muriuki wants to make sure the government's plans to create a single payment mechanism for coffee sales and purchases will include putting his institution in charge.
In 2011, the state-owned Qatari National Bank (QNB) became the first foreign bank to open in the newly independent South Sudan. Now it is taking President Salva Kiir's government to court.
A group of French companies, including, among others engineering and infrastructure groups Egis, Sogea-Satom, and public fund Stoa, has been shortlisted by the Kenyan government to take part in the highly anticipated tender for the Nairobi Railway City urban development project.
After Canada's Sherritt, the longtime operator of Ambatovy's nickel-cobalt mine, threw in its hand in August, the two remaining shareholders differ on the way forward: armed with the government's blessing, Japan's Sumitomo is all-in for the long-haul, but South Korea's Kores is already looking for a way to fold.
France's foreign trade minister Franck Riester introduced French construction giant Eiffage to the Moroccan property giant Palmeraie during his visit to the kingdom, which has launched its post-Covid recovery plan.
