All the big guns of the AU have condemned Moussa Faki's decision to accredit an Israeli ambassador to the pan-African organisation for the first time in two decades.
The British junior Savannah Energy has finally moved a step closer to purchasing part of ExxonMobil's Chadian assets.
With the prospects for tin looking rosy over the next few years, Klaus Eckhof, a keen investor in the DRC's mining sector, is hoping to develop a tin project next to Alphamin's very high-grade Bisié deposit.
By installing the former rebel leader Baba Laddé as its head of intelligence, N'Djamena is hoping to keep a close eye on all its neighbours. His appointment comes amid tensions within the ANS intelligence agency run by Ahmed Kogri.
The Chadian authorities are once again knocking on the World Bank's door to resume a project to rehabilitate a 600km road between N'Djamena and the Cameroonian border.
Alexander Okulov's Global Group, which is both a trading house and a project manager, is winning new contracts in Africa, in Central African Republic, Guinea and Guinea Bissau.
Kenya, current president of the United Nations Security Council for the month of October, has been working hard to organise the UN governing body's Sahel visit.
The Montfort Group run by former Shell and Trafigura executives has entered the east African market with the purchase of assets in Kenya and Mozambique.
Overseen by Lufthansa Consulting, the first phase of overhauling the state-owned Sudan Airways is due to be completed soon, but the national airline is still facing chronic funding problems.
Mpho Molomo, head of the SADC mission in Mozambique and ex-adviser to President Mokgweetsi Masisi, is working to make the organisation's intervention and Botswana's role in the situation in Cabo Delgado known.
Junior Tanga Resources, led by a long-time expert in African gold exploration, is increasing its presence in northern Namibia on a gold project, partially in partnership with state-owned Epangelo.
Algiers is trying to develop artisanal gold mining in the far south of the country, after the failure of its partnerships with foreign operators there and amidst social protest in the region.
The Libyan Ministry of Defence letterheaded document, submitted by Khalifa Haftar's defence in the 'war crimes' proceedings against him in the US, continues to rattle the government in Tripoli.
