The Swiss oil and mining trade giant is making changes among its executives on the continent and has just decided on its next head of oil trading in Africa.
To ensure the Three Basins Summit, which opens on October 27, runs smoothly, Congo's minister for the environment and sustainable development, Arlette Soudan-Nonault, has enlisted the support of Deloitte and EY.
Dismissed from the army on 23 October by Gabon's transitional president Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, deposed president Ali Bongo's half-brother is now being advised by a French lawyer.
The royalties levied on gold in Burkina Faso are set to rise substantially.
Mauritanian minister of digital transformation Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Louly has invited a consortium of French consultancies to submit an offer for the provision of services to help extend the national broadband backbone.
Getting more Kenyan boots on the ground in UN missions would pay double dividends: it would help modernise the country's army and boost foreign revenue.
In mid-September, the Ugandan authorities awarded the first Islamic banking license to Somalia's Salaam Bank. It marks a change of gear in the president's business diplomacy in the region.
Since coming to power in 2016, the Portuguese president has been instrumental in developing Portugal's influence in Africa. The friendships and personal contacts he has forged there give him real weight on the chessboard of Luso-African relations.
After her associate Philippe Tabuteau pleaded guilty for attempted corruption of the mining firm Gemfields at Southwark Crown Court in mid-September, Romy Voos Andrianarisoa has now done likewise in a sudden change of strategy.
