The Senegalese head of state must soon decide on whether to reorganise the country's response mechanism in the event of a terrorist attack. The army, which holds much sway with the presidency, wants to play a bigger role in this area, which has so far been dominated by interior security forces.
The Central African Republic president, an academic himself, has secured Saudi funding to renovate the University of Bangui and has formed a partnership with a Turkish university. This is all part of plans to build a new and improved tertiary education sector in the country.
East African Community (EAC) member countries are looking for new contributors to a special fund set up to finance a regional force intended to pacify eastern DR Congo. The amounts raised so far have been relatively small.
The United Nations is due to begin a strategic review of its MINUSMA peacekeeping mission in Mali in the first half of October.
The drilling company has won a swathe of contracts across the continent in recent months, confirming its place as one of the go-to suppliers in the sector.
The contours of William Ruto's foreign policy, an area largely left out of his election campaign, are beginning to take shape. The Kenyan president is broadening his official and unofficial networks and putting a particular focus on agriculture.
Neima Hassan Omar, who last year served as interim director of the Fonds souverain de Djibouti, Sovereign (SDF) has been sacked as its financial director.
The South African leader and president of the African National Congress, who looks likely to be re-elected at the ANC's elective conference in December, has already picked his favoured candidates for the party's top jobs.
The Chinese company Xinfeng Investments, which is involved in lithium exploration in the Erongo coastal region, has won its court case against the director of the Namibian business authorities. The latter had accused it of fraud in the acquisition of a new licence.
Faced with supply difficulties linked to Russia's war on Ukraine, the Australian fertiliser producer Incitec Pivot has restarted its imports of phosphates from the Boucraa mine in the Sahara, operated by OCP. It had stopped sourcing there in 2016, after protest from Scandinavian shareholders.
There are currently 21 vacant positions in the Tunisian diplomatic corps, most recently, Ambassador Moez Sinaoui, who left Rome mid-September when his posting expired.
