Germany and France may be happy to write off virtually all of Sudan's debts, but the Gulf states are asking for something in return before they will renegotiate.
The criminal action brought by the US authorities in September 2016 against the New York hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital Management Group (renamed Sculptor Capital Management in 2019) for corrupting Congolese and Libyan public officials finally reached a conclusion on 13 May.
Following long negotiations, Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara 's negotiators have finally reached an agreement which will allow the former president to return to Ivory Coast next month... in undercover mode.
Following the lead of Cameroon and Mozambique, Nigeria is finally moving into floating liquefied natural gas technology. An extremely well-connected businessman in the Niger Delta, Julius Rone, is orchestrating proceedings.
After attending the Paris summit on African economies, Niger's new President Mohamed Bazoum is considering hiring a legal and financial advisory team to help him meet his country's financial obligations.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is currently looking for consultants to carry out several studieson the Praia-Dakar-Abidjan corridor project:
More than a year after authorities in Ghana ordered the unitisation of ENI's Sankofa and Springfield's Afina fields, the process is at a standstill.
Kenyan interior secretary Fred Matiang'i wants to limit the flow of Ethiopian migrants through Marsabit. But he is hampered by his Treasury counterpart Ukur Yatani, who is in conflict with the current governor of the border county.
The former CEO of Credit Suisse, Tidjane Thiam, is part of the official delegation accompanying President Emmanuel Macron to Kigali on 27 May, alongside a few ministers and hand-picked business leaders.
South African businessman Johann Rupert has recruited several advisers to help him distribute the funds he is providing for small companies suffering from the effects of the Covid lockdowns. One of them is Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, who also advises the Oppenheimer family on its coronavirus business support fund.
Having battled in the courts since 2011 to recover a mining licence that it claims was expropriated by retired FRELIMO general Jacinto Veloso, the British firm Pathfinder Minerals now has to take on a new adversary:
The European Union has not yet picked a company to provide security for its representation in Libya over the long term. It has however awarded temporary contracts to the French company GEOS, the Maltese firm Sentinel Atlas and Septimius Security, an Irish-Libyan outfit.
Relocated to Tunis in 2014, the Libya branch of Expertise France, the French technical cooperation agency, is seeking to piece back together its networks in the country.
Russian president Vladimir Putin will make an official visit to Cairo this spring.
