Israel does not want to leave the field open to the Palestinian Authority and is seeking a presence at the AU, after its breakthrough with Sudan and Morocco. But getting an observer seat at the organisation will not be easy.
Tired of seeing coltan from its Kivu and Tanganyika mines processed and re-exported by its neighbours, Kinshasa plans to create facilities and smelters to process the ore on site. The initiative comes amid a warming of relations between the DRC and Rwanda, the country through which most of its coltan passes.
The private Chinese company Huafei Energy Investment has great expectations for its Kalumba and Kibombo dams, whose combined power could exceed 800 MW.
Breaking news published on 14/05/21, 1:50 p.m., updated on 16/05/21 - As tensions between Paris and Moscow over their battle for influence reach new highs, Russia's CAR ambassador Vladimir Titorenko, who has held this post since January 2019, will head home this summer.
Rome is distributing aid to Sahel countries so that they can take back migrants intercepted in Italy and is also trying to regain control of the Libyan coastguard, considered the final barrier to people smuggling to Europe.
Ethiopia's new ambassador to Ghana Hadera Abera Admasu, is a veteran of the country's intelligence service NISS, where he worked for thirty years.
As part of its economic reform programme, Sudan is putting in place a two-track system where Islamic and conventional finance will operate side by side.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan, UNMISS, has once again opted for a Russian firm in its latest choice of subcontractor. In late April, the Krasnodar-based PANH Helicopters won a one-year $5m contract to supply a transport helicopter for logistics missions.
Total's CEO intended to replace its local management, but the events on 24 March in Palma changed everything.
After three years of poor stock performance, Glencore's prices are on the rise. This is good news for South African investment giant Allan Gray. Glencore is one of its main investments and the fund ardently believes it is a good one.
The advertising agency Boomerang Communication, owned by Jamal Benkhadra, brother of the former minister of energy Amina Benkhadra, will run a campaign to mobilise voters ahead of the 8 September general elections.
The French president has put pressure on his Tunisian counterpart by inviting him to Paris on Tuesday, on the sidelines of the summit on African economies. This trip was decided at the last moment because of concerns about Tunisia's financial situation.
Faced with the economic downturn, the heirs of Cevital founder Issad Rebrab have been busy investing in real estate. Last month, Omar Rebrab took over the general management of Cevid subsidiary Immobis, which he already presides.
