The United Arab Emirates is no longer being welcomed with open arms in Eritrea despite efforts by Abu Dhabi to sweeten the diplomatic pill with humanitarian aid to combat Covid-19.
The African Petroleum Producers' Organization is playing it by ear amid dire financial troubles.
Mining subcontractor NB Mining, some of whose ownership is contested by former Katanga governor Moïse Katumbi, has warned FC Saint-Eloi Lupopo it might not be able to finance the club's infrastructure due to an unpaid debt owed by the state-owned Gécamines.
The Gabonese government has asked Henri Proglio, the former CEO of EDF and Veolia, to help with a strategy for the national utility SEEG, which was run by Veolia up until last year.
State-owned GNPC and its gas arm GNGC are locked in an unrelenting battle for control over Ghana's natural gas development to the chagrin of the other oil companies active in the West African country.
True to his December 2019 pledge, Senegalese president Macky Sall is set to use funding from the AfDB to supply electricity to 424 rural locations in the south and east of the country.
With extensive business interests in Somalia, Turkey is discreetly involving itself in discussions between the leaders of Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia and Somaliland.
The state-run Eximbank of China, China Development Bank and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China are leading the talks on Angola's debt to China.
The Zambian government's decision to reorganise its mineral sample collection system is a direct result of a development aid programme led by European firms and financed by the EU between 2014 and 2019.
With Libya, the OIF and reparations for the colonial era on the table, there will be no shortage of sensitive issues for the French and Tunisian presidents to discuss over dinner in Paris on 22 June.
Some players in the pharmaceutical industry have fought tooth and nail to be kept on the list of "strategic sectors" covered by Algeria's law capping foreign ownership at 49%. Here is a backstage view of their tug-of-war.