As he restructures the intelligence services, a process that he embarked upon in July, the Algerian leader is retaking control of an apparatus that for many years had enjoyed a certain autonomy from presidential oversight.
Despite considerable self-promotion efforts, the international cooperation minister is struggling to find his place within a government where he has managed to irk several ministers. His public-private partnership law has just been rejected by his father, the Congolese president, who keeps him at a safe distance from presidential affairs.
Faced with fuel shortages in Kinshasa, the government of DRC led by Prime Minister Sama Lukonde Kyeng has launched an audit on the pricing structure of petroleum products.
Since sacking his prime minister Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni earlier this month, the president Evariste Ndayishimiye has striven to regain control of several sectors, including Burundi's influential churches.
The former Emir of Kano and newly-elected head of the powerful Fulani association Tabital Pulaaku International, can boast one of the most extensive address books in the region. He plans to meet several west African presidents in the coming weeks.
Bertin Bada, President Patrice Talon's chief of military staff, met senior colleagues of French army chief General Thierry Burkhard in Paris in mid-September. Talks are in progress on military equipment purchases and a plan to set up a Beninese government arms procurement service.
Communications between the cocoa sector regulator and the main bean producer organisations have become strained. The latter reproach the public body for not consulting them, particularly on the re-evaluation of the on-farm price, unchanged since 2019.
The pan-African banking group NSIA Banque, founded by the Ivorian businessman Jean Kacou Diagou has decided to sell its headquarters in Abidjan's administrative and business district, Plateau, to the city council led by Jacques Ehouo.
The Portuguese foreign ministry has decided to overhaul its entire Africa department just months after its first change of boss since 2015.
Le ministre du pétrole Diamantino Azevedo a entériné le 8 septembre le rachat par la junior angolaise Somoil des participations du japonais Inpex et du français TotalEnergies sur les blocs 14 (20 %) et 14T (10 %).
The European Union (EU) has just approved a €20m support plan for Kigali.
Mohammed VI's 19-year-old son now has his own office in the royal palace, where, in the absence of his father, who has been in France for several months, he is familiarising himself with the mysteries of government.
The Libyan embassy in Paris has welcomed a new member of staff, defence attaché General Gibril Shtewi Mohamed, a veteran politician with a non-partisan reputation.
