The South African oil firm is beginning to believe the president's office is dragging its heels so it won't have to pay, while the state hopes to reach a compromise with the promise of a new permit.
The current head of ECCAS, the Congolese leader Denis Sassou Nguesso, is much exercised by the crisis in neighbouring DRC. Running for re-election early next year, Sassou is above all worried that the standoff between Tshisekedi and Kabila will upset his campaign.
Initially planned for 2020, the new distribution station for the DRC's Inga I and Inga II hydropower plants will now not be ready until June 2021.
Upcoming drilling campaigns in Ivory Coast may offer some temporary respite for Schlumberger, which has halved its workforce in the country.
After buying the West African firm Beneficial last year, the British insurer is considering taking a share in another of the region's banking and insurance companies, Orabank.
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Burundi's mining companies have been unable to export their production, as regularly closed borders make it impossible for them to reach the port in Dar es-Salaam.
The Kenyan banking sector giant, the Co-operative Bank, is counting on the assistance of neighbouring presidents Yoweri Museveni and Paul Kagame to revive its plans for regional expansion and become one of the small circle of Kenyan banks operating abroad.
As a US court investigates an attorney accused of plotting to divert assets placed in a New York bank by the Central Bank of Somalia at the onset of the 1991 civil war, other countries that also received Somali funds for safekeeping might be led to investigate as well.
Namibian Nuclear Corp has grand ambitions for its mining project nestled between the country's two uranium giants, Rössing and Husab. The wholly-owned Namibian firm led by Elias Shanyengana wants to get the government on board the project's ownership.
The Turkish defence electronics provider Havelsan is in pole position to provide flight simulators to train personnel on how to use the three Anka-S drones ordered by the Tunisian government from its compatriot TAI.
The interior minister Fathi Bachagha has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance with a view to reforming Libya's institutions. The country's oil facilities are at the heart of the political and geopolitical issues at stake in the conflict.
Finance Minister Mohamed Benchaâboun has secretly instructed his favourite investment banks, Upline Corporate Finance and Attijari Corporate Finance, to structure the €4bn Mohammed VI Investment Fund which aims to revive Morocco's economy in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
