Qatari property developer Mohammed Bin Twar plans to build the social housing promised by President Uhuru Kenyatta in his "Big Four Agenda".
The government has obtained the backing of the two Congolese banks for three infrastructure projects it plans to realise in the central part of the country. The work will be carried out by Egyptian construction company Hassan Allam.
Steve de Cliff Juru's findings led Burundi's president Evariste Ndayishimiye to call for a moratorium on mining and suspend permits held by Rainbow Rare Earths, chaired by Cyprus magnate Adonis Pouroulis.
The Italian government has embarked on a diplomatic campaign to strengthen military cooperation with Abuja as a means to lock in the sale of 24 combat aircraft to the Nigerian Air Force. But it is facing a circumspect air force command and competition from Pakistan.
With Turkey and Qatar increasing their diplomatic and economic footprint on the continent, Saudi Arabia is playing catch-up by preparing to host its first Africa summit in the first half of 2022. Riyad also plans to open more embassies on the continent.
ENI has hired Lagos-based Aluko & Oyebode for its arbitration against Nigeria, joining a list of other private oil majors, to use the law firm's services in their disputes with Abuja.
After investing in RwandAir and Kigali International Airport in 2019, Qatar Airways is keen to establish a base in West Africa and has started discussions with Lomé and Abidjan.
After the much publicised seizure of 150 kilos of cocaine in containers used to transport sugar in Benin, two more consignments of the same drug have been discovered in Togo, also hidden in cargoes of sugar.
As its mandate is about to expire, the United Nations mission in Somalia is facing an existential crisis: make changes or disappear.
Though not part of the current African Union Commission, Morocco seems to have at last got even by landing one of the Addis Ababa-based institution's most senior positions.
Four months before the highly-anticipated OIF summit in Djerba in November, Kamel Doukh has revived the project to build a second bridge to the island.
