Nigeria and Egypt are busy rallying support for their bid to head the World Trade Organization while the African Union should announce its decision by the end of June.
Relations between the regime in N'Djamena and the raw materials trading giant have recently become strained. Here is why.
American business lawyer David Asmus has worked on LNG projects all over Africa. After having advised on projects in Malabo and Maputo, he is now counselling the government in Dakar on development of the Grand Tortue-Ahmeyim field that Senegal shares with Mauritania.
Mohamed Ould Abdel Vetah knows his job as oil and mines minister is on the line but hopes to save his neck by demonstrating his ability to defend the interests of the state in the country's major oil and mining projects.
The Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire businessman Gilbert Chagoury has stayed well out of sight since Muhammadu Buhari's arrival in power and for good reason. It was Chagoury who splashed out on PR services in the US for Buhari's rival Goodluck Jonathan ahead of the 2015 elections.
The Naples-based naval maintenance specialist Eligroup will deliver three refitted patrol boats to the Nigerian Navy and safety agency NIMASA this summer. It is a small consolation for Italy's defence industry against Israeli Blue Octagon, the architect of the vast maritime security project Deep Blue.
French military equipment producer Marck opened its first unit outside of France in Abidjan in June, the Compagnie Africaine de Défense et de Sécurité.
The Salaam Group's Djibouti bank often accused of being a little too close to the jihadist insurgents is now controlled by property developer Al-Rayan.
Geremew Negassa announced at the end of the Australia-Africa Minerals & Energy Group webinar that foreign drilling companies and mining laboratories had been authorised to establish themselves in Ethiopia.
In early June, US firm General Electric appointed Orin Snyder and Anne Champion (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher), to defend it in the action brought against Aenergy.
Morocco has failed to halt the ICSID arbitration action brought by the German firm Scholz Holding, which is seeking $20m in compensation.
Abdessamed El Haouari, a man known to be close to the Islamist circuits, opened the Forum of Algerians in Britain in June. The London-based association gives the former El Watan TV boss a new outlet after his channel was shut down.
