Ethiopia has carefully orchestrated pressure within the African Union so that the organisation never gets involved in its host country's affairs.
Workers at the major's Chadian sites have downed tools since 25 June over a pay dispute. So the country's authorities were not best pleased when the managing director left the country on leave.
The Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie is alarmed by DRC's delay in preparing for the body's athletic and cultural extravaganza due to take place in Kinshasa in August 2022. In a recent report, it points to unjustified spending and a lack of transparency in the management of the games' funds.
Even though his governement has negotiated several measures to reform the management of Cameroon's public companies with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Paul Biya has kept his loyalists at the head of the main parastatals, some of whom have been in place for more than twenty years.
The class action law suit in New Jersey between Glencore subsidiary Katanga Mining (which operates the DRC's Kamoto copper-cobalt mine) and a group of its minority shareholders closed on June 25.
As competition to supply several patrol ships to the Ghana Navy heats up, two shipyards intend to lower their production costs by relocating the vessels' assembly.
In order to convince foreign miners to invest in the country's resources, the Somali government has promised that a specific code is being prepared to replace the one from 1984 - while also admitting that it does not know when it will be adopted.
The violence that followed the arrest of former president Jacob Zuma has had serious repercussions for the country's mining sector. The outbursts, located in the province of KwaZulu Natal, are hampering the activity of local mines, but also that of Durban and Richards Bay port terminals.
As it struggles to establish robust cooperation with southern African countries, despite Moscow's historical ties with the region, Russia is relying heavily on the networks and finances of locally based miners.
The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) is involved in all stages of European migration policy, from conducting studies to lobbying and tendering for the provision of border surveillance and protection equipment for local border guards.
Owner of the Mövenpick and the Palais des Congrès in Marrakesh, and of seven hotels across the kingdom, the Al Ajial group, a Moroccan offshoot of the Kuwaiti sovereign wealth fund, is going through hard times.
Several of the Algerian generals placed formally under investigation in recent weeks were involved in the army's acquisition of Emirati observation drones.
Breaking news, published on 16/07/21 at 12 p.m. - Morocco's foreign affairs minister Nasser Bourita will meet his counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian in Paris on July 19.
