The US and Italian majors are radically changing their plans for the huge gas reserves in their Block 4 in Mozambique. They no longer believe that calm will be restored to Cabo Delgado any time soon.
Even as Emmanuel Macron was undertaking an official visit to #Cameroon on 26 July, the Elysée was deciding on its next ambassador to the country.
A Parisian judge questioned several of the late Omar Bongo's adult children in June and July about their links with the AICI real estate agency founded by Dominique Ouattara. The Ivorian first lady's name appears many times in the minutes of the interrogations.
After winning an arbitration case against the Guinean state in Paris, Global Voice Group is seeking to have the ruling recognised by the US. Conakry was ordered to pay more than $20 million to the telecommunications firm.
The head of the Agence française de développement (AFD), Rémy Rioux, should be reappointed for a third three-year term at the head of the organisation.
The two main presidential candidates are struggling to meet the demands of their many allies and lieutenants for future government jobs - a crisis that has blown up just two weeks before the general election.
Apart from the fact that he is taking up his post in a region rendered explosive by the civil war in neighbouring Ethiopia, General Laurent Boite, who was until now number two in the French special operations command, will have to try to smooth relations with the Djiboutian authorities despite France's failure so far to renew its military cooperation treaty with them.
A longstanding dispute between Dodoma and Zanzibar over Latham Island has been re-ignited. An increasing number of leading Zanzibari figures are demanding control of the island, currently under the administration of the mainland.
The two leading figures in Algeria's petroleum sector, the energy minister Mohamed Arkab and the managing director of Sonatrach Toufik Hakkar, have divergent views on the modalities for implementing the oil bill of 2019.
Helene Le Gal, who has been French ambassador to Morocco since 2019, is being tipped to become head of the Middle East and North Africa department at the European External Action Service in Brussels.
