Ministry of foreign affairs pulled out all the stops to quell diplomatic tensions with African states. Here's how it did it.
Consultancy firms are eager to demonstrate that they remain at the side of their clients in the African mining industry despite the coronavirus pandemic.
With Chad's oil production increasing at last, the Chinese major is preparing to increase its own output in the country, to the great delight of the Chadian president.
Despite making strenuous efforts, Parnasse, the consulting company of former French IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, failed to win the consulting contract it was chasing in DRC. It was beaten to it by Baker McKenzie, where Strauss-Kahn's successor at the IMF, Christine Lagarde, used to work.
The state-owned China Civil Engineering Construction (CCEC) made good use of local businessman Edo Kasongo's networks to land a contract to upgrade 128-km stretch of road in Haut-Katanga province.
The Portuguese aircraft services firm Aeromec has ramped up its Cameroonian activities with a new contract won in tandem with Marshall Aerospace to provide maintenance to three Hercules transport aircraft.
With investors pulling out left, right and centre amid the Covid-19 pandemic, financier Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and his well-to-do partners at Future Africa are looking to Lagos' affluent circles for new sources of cash.
La Banque mondiale a finalement choisi le cabinet DS Avocats pour accompagner le projet de réforme des partenariats publics-privé (PPP).
Kampala rejects complaint filed by a member of the tin industry body that has mines in Uganda.
The American military is set to expand its Chabelley airfield to increase flights of the unmanned aircraft that lead its fight against al-Shabaab militants.
Several firms involved in the gas project in northern Mozambique's Cabo Delgado are hiring staff through a London-based recruitment company. But border closures are complicating relocation.
To both protect the national power board STEG and assert his own position, the minister of energy wants to scupper the previous government's move to open Tunisia's electricity market to private solar power and wind farm developers.
Wiqaytna, the mobile application for tracking Covid-19 cases, has not cost the Moroccan state a penny. It was developed in April by a number of Moroccan companies. It could, however, help some of them with good political connections to get into a good position for the development contract for the second version.
The industrial firm Poulina Group Holding (PGH), the second largest private group in Tunisia, has made a few key appointment changes within its Moroccan subsidiaries.