France has finally taken a step towards returning three human skulls, including one believed to be of a king beheaded by French colonists in the 19th century, to Madagascar. Antananarivo requested their return twenty years ago.
Like Cameroon, the Central African Republic has established a Rapid Intervention Battalion, comprising 500 troops, mostly trained by the Rwandan army.
A few weeks before announcing they were postponing the presidential elections, the Senegalese authorities were pleading with the United States for closer security cooperation. Dakar is especially keen for Washington's support to secure Senegal's border with Mali.
The Ivorian oil assets of Svenska Petroleum, owned by Saudi-Ethiopian billionaire Mohammed al-Amoudi, could soon be sold off to US firm Vaalco.
The troubled state-owned company is itself financing new infrastructure to stop power cuts that are leading industrial clients to seek power elsewhere.
The Coordination of Civil Democratic Forces and dozens of business people are due to meet in the Ethiopian capital this week for a conference organised by a US NGO.
Africa Intelligence condemns the unjustified arrest on 22 February and subsequent detention in Addis Ababa of one of its journalists, Antoine Galindo, while he was on an assignment in Ethiopia and calls for his immediate release.
Yariv Elbaz, Yariv Elbaz, head of Moroccan miller Forafric, has won the defamation case he brought against his uncle.
The National Oil Corp (NOC)'s estate division, Jawaby Property Investment, located in the heart of the City of London, just got a new director.
