The Lebanese businessman has created a scheme by which he is able to continue business as usual despite being under US sanctions, which are in part on account of his alleged ties with Hezbollah.
The Swiss commodities trader Vitol has become a trump card in British junior Savannah's game. In exchange for financial support for Savannah's purchase of ExxonMobil-Petronas's Doba assets, it should end up well placed to market the crude produced there.
The family of Guy-Brice Parfait Kolélas is still tearing each other apart over how he died - it's the basis of a legal battle in France between the children of the former Congolese opposition leader and his wife.
Several precautionary measures taken at the end of last year against the Guinean subsidiaries of Monaco Resources in their dispute with construction group MCI were cancelled at the start of January.
Already at the forefront of the European Union's military mission in Mozambique, Lisbon is preparing to get involved in officer training for the Guinea-Bissau army.
By facilitating the sale of four Singaporean patrol boats to the Ghanaian navy, Israel Shipyards took on a new role as a broker, which should enable the military complex to gain a foothold in Ghana.
Ghana is trying to rally support from outside the ECOWAS states for the sanctions the regional body has slapped on the Malian junta. The African Union for its part met on Friday to discuss the issue.
Perenco's negotiations for the takeover of three blocks in the Ivorian offshore have been dragging on for several months. Africa Intelligence reveals the reasons behind this stalemate.
An agreement has been reached between the Tanzanian authorities and the Australian junior Evolution Energy Minerals (formerly Marvel Gold) to recover its exploration rights in the Chilalo graphite mining operation.
The Djibouti budget for 2022, passed last December, contains several tax increases. The economy of the small port country has been hit hard by the combined consequences of Covid-19 and, in particular, the civil war in neighbouring Ethiopia.
In 2019, Pope Francis spectacularly involved himself in the South Sudanese peace process when he kissed the feet of the country's leaders. The visit he is currently planning to make to Juba with the UK's Archbishop of Canterbury will be less political, but it might indirectly help speed up discussions between the government and rebel groups who have still not signed up to the 2018 peace deal.
Merafe Resources is looking to move into the platinum sector, globally dominated by South African producers. This move comes on the back of the company's joint venture with Glencore, Merafe Ferrochrome and Mining, which is the world's largest producer of ferrochrome, a mineral needed to make stainless steel.
Despite its promises to use state-owned construction group Cosider, the national oil giant Sonatrach has awarded a $75.4m contract to the Emirati company Metito to build one of its three new seawater desalination plants. The use of this energy-guzzling technology is however increasingly contested.
