The head of state has once again postponed his decision on the 52 marginal fields that he was to award in December, much to the dismay of the increasingly impatient candidates.
Russian private security firm Wagner has stepped up equipment deliveries to CAR's armed forces over recent days, using a range of large cargo plane brokers. The logistics escalation comes as rebels threaten the 27 December presidential poll.
Oil majors active in Congo that have not had their oil costs audited since 2015 may now have to reveal all for the 2018-2019 fiscal year.
Seized by a Lebanese couple seeking to enforce an arbitration ruling, the French courts have authorised the auctioning off of two properties belonging to the Congolese state. Kinshasa's defence - that these premises are diplomatically protected - has been rejected by Parisian magistrates.
The ruling by the Kinshasa court of appeal on 11 December to annul the seizure by Astalia, a firm connected to Congolese opponent Moïse Katumbi, of assets owned by Octavia, a company controlled by French businessman Pascal Beveraggi, is not the end of the story.
Early this month in Paris, Catherine Samba-Panza, candidate for president of the Central African Republic, relied heavily on ImaGGE communications agency for PR.
The Desert to Power programme, initiated by the African Development Bank, has been joined by the Green Climate Fund in a bid to remove obstacles to developing solar energy in G5 Sahel countries.
Currently without a sovereign fund, for several years Ivory Coast has been using various pension funds for its strategic investments. Newly elected for a third presidential term, Alassane Ouattara has asked Rothschild bank to furnish the country with the financial instrument it is lacking.
Now in his 80s, the multimillionaire Abdul Satar Dada remains a pivotal figure of Botswana's political and business spheres and continues to support the Masisi clan in more ways than one.
The South African entrepreneur Gareth de Nysschen, the founder and main shareholder in the South African firearms distributor Dave Sheer Guns, has been embroiled in a dispute since the summer with the US State Department and Department of Commerce after they refused him an import licence.
Army chief of staff Chengriha wants to bring back retired senior officers banned by his predecessor Ahmed Gaïd Salah and nip in the bud any dissent within the ranks arising from President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's prolonged absence.
The rapprochement that Italy is seeking to engineer between General Haftar and Ahmed Miitig is economically as well as diplomatically motivated and has already resulted in the release of Italian fishermen detained by the strongman of the east.
The Moroccan office of French insurance company Axa established a new trust on October 19th entitled AXA Perspective, deposited at and managed by CFG Bank.
