Before the next round of climate negotiations, Gabon is attempting to revise the United Nation's method of calculating a country's carbon footprint with the goal of quickly selling its emission permits.
The French oil company Perenco has opted to promote a young drilling engineer to the top job at its Cameroonian subsidiary, one of its biggest on the continent.
Prime Minister Sama Lukonde Kyenge is furious that his government has no representation on the commission set up by the president's office to reassess the reserves of Tenke Fungurume Mining's copper mine.
On 15 September, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) dashed the hopes of eleven top Congo officials close to former head of state Joseph Kabila by refusing to annul sanctions imposed on them since 2016 by the European Council.
Faced with a jihadist threat on Chad's northern border and with troops engaged in peacekeeping operations in Mali, Togo's head of state has spearheaded a major shakeup of the army and defence ministry's leadership to prepare for challenges ahead.
As it adjusts to post-coup Guinea, the local mining logistics provider UMS, headed by Fadi Wazni, is also facing an arbitration where the firm of French lawyer William Bourdon is representing a client who wants to regain control of a plane both parties are claiming ownership of.
A team from the International Criminal Court (ICC) was in Khartoum this week
The only declared candidate for the African seat on the UN Security Council for 2023-2024, Mozambique is now looking to garner support in Europe.
Jair Bolsonaro has put South Africa in an awkward position. He hopes to curry favour with evangelicals at home by appointing the former mayor of Rio as his new envoy there. Pretoria is far from pleased but, instead of rejecting Marcelo Crivella outright, has chosen to run the clock down.
Although the Biden administration called on the Tunisian president to rapidly restore the country's democratic institutions in mid-August, it has continued to cooperate with Tunis on several fronts, not least via its MCC and USAID development agencies.
The Transitional Military Council first secured the country's left flank by sealing a pact with Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum, and is now hoping to consolidate its western and northern borders in the face of the persistent threat of rebel attacks.
The French firm Square Facts, which specialises in risk management and compliance, opened a subsidiary in Rabat in September.
