The rapid progress of the Rwandan army's intervention in the Cabo Delgado Province has led to a growing sense of optimism by the French oil and gas major, which could speed up the timetable for the resumption of its work.
The gendarmerie's intelligence service, the DGR, which has carried out most of the recent investigations involving senior Gabonese figures suspected of embezzlement, is currently carrying out a major drive against customs fraud at Gabonese ports.
With France's active support, the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) is on a mission to obtain some of the special drawing rights (SDR) funds attributed to developed countries to offset the impact of Covid-19.
With Angola and Brazil on the fritz, Jaír Bolsonaro turns to Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embaló to find a new Portuguese-speaking partner in Africa.
The Ethiopian airline has ended its direct flight between Abidjan and Newark Airport, much to the displeasure of the Ivorian president, who hopes to fill the gap with an Air Côte d'Ivoire flight to the United States by 2023.
The Nigerian presidency is not free of the threat posed by the deteriorating security situation in the country.
Belgian businessman Alain Goetz quit the management of his Ugandan gold refinery a few months ago after being found guilty of money laundering in Belgium. He is also facing accusations of tax evasion in Rwanda, where he is a shareholder in another refinery.
The hydrocarbons ministry has become the most sought after administration in the country as Uganda waits for the start of crude oil exports from Lake Albert. The post of secretary general, which is particularly under pressure, has a new incumbent.
The all-powerful director of Somalia's National Intelligence Service Agency (NISA), Fahad Yasin, will no longer be calling the shots in Mogadishu.
Three months after a visit to Djibouti by Andrew Forrest, the billionaire boss of Australia's Fortescue Metals Group (FMG), an online meeting is due to be held in mid-September between representatives of Ismaïl Omar Guelleh's presidential administration (IOG) and the mining group.
The ONEE has still not signed the power purchase agreements needed to launch the vast solar power park that EDF Renouvelables has been hired to build for Morocco's sustainable energy agency Masen. Several executives of the French group in charge of the file recently left the firm.
Under-explored and under-developed due to the lack of stability in Libya, two oil basins in the south-west of the country could see their operations resume thanks to the proactive lobbying of the state-owned company NOC.
Mikhail Bogdanov, Vladimir Putin's special representative for Africa and the Middle East, will be in Nice for an economic forum on Africa organised by the Institut Choiseul.
