Since the beginning of July, Wagner Group personnel have been beefing up Russia's presence in southwestern Libya, a few kilometres from oil fields held by militias affiliated with General Khalifa Haftar.
Congolese authorities are wary of the ambitions of the head of Evagor, who wants to develop a hydrogen plant on the back of the Inga III mega-dam and to build nearly 10,000 km of railway tracks.
After four years in charge of oil and mining, Mohamed Ould Abdel Vetah has hung up the gloves and made way for a newcomer with no direct experience in either sectors.
Among the potential buyers for the Alteo alumina refinery in Marseilles, currently in administration, is Monaco Resources, whose founder Axel Fischer was previously convicted in Germany for mismanagement of an aluminium factory.
At a Turkey-Guinea business forum, Turkish deputy trade minister Gonca Yilmaz Batur said that she planned to sign an agreement ending double taxation between the two countries as quickly as possible.
After being forced to resign by part of the army on 18 August, the former Malian president could be allowed to go to the United Arab Emirates, where he has been receiving medical care for months.
Pacific Architects & Engineers has become one of the US's main support service providers in the war against Al-Shabaab in a number of different fields.
The second phase of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, a cornerstone of South Africa's water supply strategy, is now not expected to be completed until December 2026. The new delay, which is the result of administrative hold-ups, risks creating difficulties in the province of Gauteng.
The firm owned by the businessman Hassan El Ali recently signed a deal with Mozambique's national oil company ENH, thereby becoming one of the first Dubai-based operators to invest in the country's gas sector.
The Namibian government recently relaunched an environmental authorisation process for modernisation of the Skorpion zinc mine. The move will speed things up if operator Vedanta decides to relaunch the project it put on hold in March.
Transport minister Abadelkader Amara wants to have Moroccan firms reinvest in the ferry market between Morocco and Europe, dominated by foreign companies. The El Moutea family, owner of City Bus, has already shown interest in taking a slice.
