Kenya imports most of its sugar from Uganda, but it suspects its neighbour of selling it stock produced in other countries and relabelled to benefit from preferential customs tariffs.
Due to a lack of cash, the delivery to Libreville of a helicopter upgraded by Heli Technique has been blocked for three years. The aircraft was purchased through Eurotradia, a consultancy firm now integrated into the ADIT group.
Compagnie des Mines du Congo (Cominco) received the go-ahead from Congo's cabinet on 20 September to operate its planned Hinda phosphates mine, 30 km from Pointe Noire
Interim president Mahamat Idriss Déby's hope of winning tacit approval for his rule have been dashed after the African Union chose Addis Ababa over N'Djamena for its next summit.
The post of mines and geology minister, which involves overseeing Guinea's biggest economic sector, is highly coveted. With efforts currently under way to form a first post-coup government, it is attracting a lot of applicants.
Ankara is trying to attract young African diplomats, especially those from Senegal, Niger and Togo, to its diplomatic academies.
The first berth of the infrastructure intended to be the starting point of the LAPSSET Corridor has already been inaugurated. But to finance the rest of this colossal project, starting with the construction of the next quay, the banks are asking for state guarantees.
Since the failed coup in Khartoum last week, blamed like previous plots on "former regime loyalists", the authorities are likely to redouble their efforts to track down Omar al-Bashir's former top spy Salah Gosh, whom they accuse of masterminding the attempted putsch.
Despite three years of cooperation with the Financial Action Task Force, Botswana looks like it is going to stay on the organisation's grey list. President Masisi has intervened personally to try to save the day.
Investment fund EuroFin Asia, which financed an aborted crude oil recovery mega-project in South Africa in 2017, is determined to get its $40m back. It has commissioned the private investigation firm Kroll to further determine the role of a South African businessman.
Rehabilitation work on the Kariba dam is expected to be further delayed because of new geological complications experienced by French contractor Razel-Bec. The project is deemed essential to averting a collapse.
The small airline, a Maltese subsidiary of the Libyan sovereign fund LIA, shot past Alitalia and Air Malta to start up its route on 20 September.
The Norwegian investment fund focused on renewables and headed by Terje Osmundsen, the former vice-president of Scatec Solar, is on the lookout for self-consumption projects in industry for customers who are preparing for a carbon tax on European imports.
