With the presidential campaign in full swing in Abidjan and Paris juggling a wait-and-see attitude with muted disapproval of Alassane Ouattara's desire to run for re-election, the French foreign ministry has quietly recalled its ambassador Gilles Huberson for "administrative reasons". [...]
Italy's Teleconsult, a service provider for the Congolese telecoms and pay-TV sector and, more discreetly, for the country's security services, has taken legal action against the French businessman François Gontier for breach of contract. [...]
With only days to go before the expected appointment of the transitional president, CNSP officers are still divided over who should have the job. The coup-makers are divided between former generals Moussa Sinko Coulibaly and Mahamane Touré. [...]
Hassen Taïeb Ezzraïmi has taken over the reins of the holding company founded by his father, the industrialist and MP Abdelkader Taïeb Ezzraïmi, who died in April. His brothers have kept control of parts of the group. [...]
Italian lawyer Lucio Lucia, who is acting for the Nigerian state in the trial of the parties involved in the Malabu oil scandal, has brought out the big guns before the Milan court hearing the case. [...]
Zenith Energy, the company which has just taken over AAOG, has been accused by AAOG's personnel of having failed to pay their salaries. Zenith has denied this but the government has intervened. Here, we reveal what happened behind the scenes. [...]
South Africa's Petra Diamonds, which has been absent from Angola's diamond sector since 2009, is in talks with the government to develop new projects in the country. The firm is one of a growing number of foreign investors being courted by President Lourenço's administration. [...]
Unlike other African countries, which are reducing the volume of fertilisers they are ordering for 2021 in response to the Covid-19 crisis, Ghana plans to increase its fertiliser imports. It wants to avoid food shortages but also to avoid problems for President Nana Akufo-Addo as he prepares to run for a fresh term in December. [...]
Chinese aluminium and electricity producer Hangzhou Jinjiang has applied for bauxite prospecting rights in Guinea. To prepare its arrival, it has made use of Chinese trade promotion events and its contacts with China's Chalco and TBEA groups, which are already active in the Guinean bauxite sector. [...]
