In a context of insecurity and low hydrocarbon prices, it remains unclear when US major ExxonMobil will finally decide to launch its giant LNG project in Mozambique, even though its Italian partner ENI is moving ahead.
Hit hard by a health crisis that is expected to slash GDP by 3.5 percentage points, Cameroon is desperately clinging to its gas prospects to rescue the economy.
The deepwater Banana port project, bogged down for months by the Covid-19 pandemic and tensions between President Félix Tshisekedi and ministers loyal to his predecessor Joseph Kabila, now looks like it might move forward by the end of the year.
Bilal Bongo, Gabonese President Ali Bongo's third son, interrupted his studies in the United Kingdom to join the force responsible for the security of his father's seaside palace residence and of the presidential staff.
With the rift between President Tshisekedi and his predecessor Kabila wide open, Paris does not want to see the former head of state entirely cast aside while Washington would be happy for him to disappear into the background.
The Kenyan authorities have decided to put an end to the 1,050-MW Lamu power project led by Centum Investment and French firm Rubis now that its main financial backer, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, has left.
The central government's state of emergency spokesman is a defector from the former administration dominated by Tigray officials who is well versed in crisis propaganda.
Facing multiple charges in South Africa, the millionaire pastor Shepherd Bushiri has developed a taste for mining investments far beyond his native Malawi.
Both Namibia's and Botswana's heads of state like to present themselves as a model for regional cooperation but a burgeoning bilateral crisis is undermining that reputation. So far SADC has kept quiet, even when the Botswana army fatally shot three Namibian civilians in an antipoaching operation.
Zambia's state mining company ZCCM-IH has begun recruiting people to represent it on the boards of directors of joint ventures in which it is a shareholder. Some of the firms are jointly run by foreign companies with which it has fraught relations.
Fezzan has become a major key to the Libyan conflict and Turkey, via an NGO, is trying to make contact with the tribes that control the southern region.
Kamel Guizani, former head of the Directorate General of National Security (DGSN) may be rejected by the Netherlands as Tunisia's new ambassador because of his involvement in the case of the detained researcher Moncef Kartas.
