Malabo is being very creative in its efforts to get hold of the country's largest oil field, which the American major ExxonMobil is very keen to ditch.
Tekever, building on its recent success in Nigeria where it has supplied surveillance drones, is stepping up its sales pitch there. It also hopes to conquer new markets in the DR Congo and Cameroon.
Breaking news published 15/12/20 at 12:35 - The Guinean diplomat and old UN hand Bintou Keita is likely to succeed Algeria's Leila Zerrougui at the head of the UN's largest peacekeeping mission, whose mandate is up for renewal this week.
To prepare for the start of production at new satellite deposits around its Bissa gold mine in northern Burkina Faso, the Russian mining company Nordgold is about to start the relocation of the populations living in the area.
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) parliamentary group is due to submit a report by the end of December on Germany's engagement in the Sahel.
After a pair of devastating fires, some oil refinery operators in South Africa, such as Shell, are wondering if it is time to jump ship. Others are looking at a radical change of strategy.
South African authorities have begun investigating Dyck Advisory Group and its partners, Duncan Mac Arthur and STTEP International.
The development of the Seychelles financial centre has become a windfall for operators that use false certificates to cover their tracks. Reliant on international institutions' blessing of its financial sector, the government was recently scolded over this by an OECD peer review.
Angola is turning to India in its search for new markets for its diamonds. Which looks like a win-win situation for both countries, as many diamond dealers in Mumbai are keen to end Dubai's stranglehold on Angolan stones.
The mining giant Anglo American has hired a new recruit to head its programme to combat violence against women.
After setting it aside to focus on smaller infrastructure projects, the national power utility company NamPower has to rekindle the 135-MW solar power project in Arandis.
The €120m smart grid pilot project launched on 3 December for the national power board STEG failed to interest sector giants SAP and Capgemini. Siemens will still be bidding against prominent names such as Moncef Sellami and Nasr Ali Chakroun.
Sorman MP Fawzi Al-Nuwayri is trying to make the most of Aguila Salah Issa's weakened political position to get a new speaker of the House of Representatives elected.
With all of its attention taken up by the war against Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army, Fayez Sarraj's Government of National Accord is struggling to profit from the many African projects launched by Muammar Gaddafi's money man Bashir Saleh.
