Removed several years back from the main opposition party, which he briefly led, the former Borno State governor is now locked out of the top seat of the president's party he later joined. The lost opportunity could mark the end of an eventful career.
Alexey Mordashov, who has been put on the British Treasury's sanctions list following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, is struggling to find a refiner for the gold produced by his UK-listed Nordgold group in Burkina Faso and Guinea.
Nimba Development Co has obtained the mining rights on a Guinean iron ore permit previously held by Sable Mining, which was accused of irregular practices in 2016. Several Guinean mining experts are on the Nimba board and management, among them the former head of the Simandou iron ore project and the former managing director of GAC, who is also the daughter of Guinea's transition prime minister.
With only a few months to go before the dam's third reservoir is filled over the next rainy season, the pressure is weighing on the Senegalese president's shoulders. Sall, who is also the chairman of the Africa Union, knows his input on the decade-old thorny issue will be particularly scrutinised.
Despite Ivory Coast having a minimal dependence on the Russian and Ukrainian economies, the country is increasingly feeling the impact of the war in Ukraine, which has placed President Alassane Ouattara in a delicate position.
Japan would like a private operator, preferably Japanese, to take over the concession of terminal 2 of the port of Mombasa. This puts President Uhuru Kenyatta in an uncomfortable position with regard to the dockers' unions, in the run-up to the general elections scheduled for August.
The Russian pipeline company ChelPipe (TMK) had been well placed in the race for the Uganda-Tanzania pipeline contract, but the current geopolitical situation has completely thrown its situation into doubt.
The lucrative contract to provide air support to the British Army Training Unit in Kenya, BATUK, has finally been awarded after being delayed for two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The former head of government in Lesotho, Thomas Motsoahae Thabane, is facing charges for his alleged role in the assassination of his wife Lipolelo Thabane in 2017. Since the time of the events, several key witnesses have been opportunely placed on overseas diplomatic appointments.
The new company Naledi River Diamonds, a joint venture between south Africa's Magni Investment Holdings (51 %) and Botswana's APTK Group (49 %), was created on 14 March #Botswana
Finance minister Nadia Fettah Alaoui is pressing ahead with the reforms initiatied by her predecessor Mohamed Benchaaboun, ahead of the creation of the new state holdings agency the government intends to set up.
Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba has been stripped of oil revenues by the head of the NOC, Mustafa Sanalla. This is part of a financial blockade supported by the United States, which is anxious to avoid any disruption of oil and gas production, against the backdrop of the Russia-Ukraine war.
