To avoid further headache, the French major has decided to cough up and compensate the companies that it or its own subcontractors had hired on its now shelved LNG export project.
The president's plans to revise all the contracts the DRC has signed with China were largely inspired by the United States.
Congo's new hydrocarbon's minister Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua has issued his first accreditation to the firm Atlantique Pétrochimie, the BFDI subsidiary that is supposed to be constructing the Pointe-Noire refinery. But since the laying of the cornerstone in February, the works have been at a standstill.
The Cameroonian navy has embarked on a search for patrol boats after its attempt to acquire two Bollinger vessels from Washington was blocked as a sanction for abuses committed by the army in the country's English-speaking region.
With Paris having recently announced the progressive withdrawal of French troops deployed with Operation Barkhane in the Sahel, the European Union is for its part continuing to support the security forces of the region.
The contract to purchase two Short Tucano MK1 planes from RSW has sparked such acute tensions between the Nigerien army high command and defence ministry on the one hand, and the budget ministry on the other.
On 14 June, the Ethiopian government kick-started the tendering process for the future partial privatisation of the state-owned telephone operator Ethio Telecom.
With vanadium prices constantly breaking new records, miners of this mineral in which South Africa is rich are striving with the blessing of Pretoria to win back a market share that has been lost to China in recent years.
Earlier this month, the head of South Africa's Intergovernmental Fintech Working Group (IFWG), Olaotse Matshane, published a long-awaited report on the regulation of crypto-assets in South Africa, in what was his first public act since he took on this role in April.
After a trip to London on 25 June and an afternoon meeting with his British counterpart Boris Johnson, the Libyan prime minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba will fly to Rabat for his first official visit there since taking up his post in March.
Moulay Hassan's enrolment into the university served as a royal blessing for OCP boss Mostafa Terrab's pride and joy. The institute is on the way to becoming a nursery for the future royal entourage, or Makhzen.
Canadian company CCL Secure is working behind the scenes to sell its Guardian polymer banknotes to Algeria's central bank, the Banque d'Algérie, to replace the currency currently in circulation.
