Chinese defence giant Poly Technologies has secretly taken a stake in the capital of IMUT, a company set up to deliver locally-built armoured vehicles to the Egyptian army and which is run from Pretoria by American-Egyptian busnessman Michel F.
The two state oil institutions, both exclusively controlled by the president and a few of his liegemen, have become the prime target of activists in the southwest, where the population is just as distrustful of their English-speaking elites.
Under the leadership of its chairman Adonis Pouroulis, Australian junior Golden Rim Resources will join the Kada gold project alongside Turkey's Vetro Gold, a subsidiary of Turkish businessman Zafer Topaloglu's Toya Group. Topaloglu has been planning a partnership with Pouroulis in Guinean gold for more than a year.
The Norwegian group Yara is using a mix of grants and infrastructure builds to promote its interests to African governments, who largely call the shots on how much fertilizer their countries order.
Behind leading Djiboutian logistics mogul Aboubaker Omar Hadi, the young Aden Moussa Douksieh is quietly getting down to business.
Hassan Ali Khaire, who resigned under duress as Somalia's prime minister on 25 July, was western diplomats' main point of contact in Farmajo's government.
As investigations in Germany mount over the online payment giant Wirecard's high-profile bankruptcy, the Mauritian authorities are being dragged into the scandal. The German group used an accounting trick to inflate its revenues by €290m in a single week via structures registered on the island.
The LIA chairman, whose term in office expired on 15 July without being renewed, has set in motion Deloitte's re-evaluation of the sovereign wealth fund's assets, in line with the wishes of the United Nations.
Cooperation between Algiers and the European Union has been far from smooth sailing and is once again on thin ice.
