With just a few months to go before the presidential polls, the prime minister's strategists are fine-tuning their plan to get him elected as Senegal's next head of state. The team, under the guidance of President Macky Sall, includes politicians, technocrats and army officers.
Gabon's new minister of hydrocarbons has just announced new measures aimed at improving the country's drawing power with foreign operators. Yet his efforts have had little impact on his intended audience, whose interest had already waned before the coup.
Solway Investment Group has told the Liberian president to either provide compensation after a secret deal that handed its iron ore mining licence to ArcelorMittal, or face arbitration that could cost the state $2bn.
Disinclined to develop the gas field itself, BP has decided to pass Yakaar-Teranga along to US partner Kosmos Energy.
Plans to send an international police mission to Haiti under Kenyan leadership remain unclear, raising fears and criticism within the Kenyan police and beyond.
In line with Paul Kagame's strategy of making Kigali a global financial centre, Rwanda is trying to woo investors with a growing number of tax breaks and other incentives. The Mauritian Lagesse family is making the most of these carrots.
Six months after the signing of the concession and power purchase contracts for the Volobe dam, the project is still bogged down. The Malagasy president and his adviser want a lower price per kWh than that proposed by the CGHV, which is to build the infrastructure with the state.
After postponing at the last minute its Italy-Africa summit initially scheduled for November, Italian diplomacy is now postponing its Rome MED Dialogues forum, whose star guest was due to be Algerian President Tebboune.