Determined to remain at the head of the government in Tripoli, Abdelhamid Dabaiba has reactivated his channels of communication with Chechnyan strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, who has long offered his services to train the Libyan military.
In light of Western measures against their shareholders, the fertiliser producers PhosAgro, Uralchem and Eurochem will drastically cut their exports to Africa, a market they had turned to with relative success after the loss of their Ukrainian clients in 2014.
The secretary general of the presidency of the republic (SGPR) Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh is tightening his grip on state coffers by ordering an audit of expenses incurred between 2010 and 2021.
Former Chelsea player Didier Drogba and Hamed Bakayoko's ex-right-hand man, Idriss Diallo, are both competing to be the head of the Ivorian Football Federation, yet they were once business partners. They bought shares in Ity gold mine in 2013, and then sold their shares in 2019 to Endeavour without ever fully paying their first owner, the Ivorian parastatal group Sodemi, which is now asking for its dues.
In recent months, the Australian junior mining company Kopore Metals has been making a shift from Botswana copper to Nigerien uranium. This is an area its general manager Caroline Keats, who previously led Tiger Resources, knows well from her years at Paladin Energy.
France has in recent weeks relaunched its military cooperation with Guinea, which was put on hold after last September's coup d'état.
Just two years after the very devout prime minister set up the Ethiopian Council of Gospel Believers' Churches, the Protestant grouping is already split between Abiy Ahmed's supporters and priests who are worried that the government is instrumentalising their faith.
With all exports to Russia on hold, tea prices have dropped drastically. Kenya's minister of agriculture is working hard to find new outlets for the unsold stock.
Negotiations to merge the activities of ENI and BP in Angola have just been concluded with the creation of a joint venture between the two majors. The deal involved a host of international law firms.
The risk of seeing diamonds produced by Russian group Alrosa, including in Angola, being used to finance Russia's war on Ukraine has brought a reaction from the civil society coalition monitoring implementation of the Kimberley Process.
The African National Congress is set to renew its leadership in December, yet the local conferences that must happen beforehand, are not taking place, due to lack of funding and intense rivalries.
One of the country's leading media firms is poised to obtain a coal mining prospection permit, quite unexepectedly. AB Communications is owned by former information and communications minister Supa Mandiwanzira.
Having been leaderless for more than two months, the Africa and African Union departments of the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs finally have new bosses.
