Just as world leaders meeting in Germany for the G7 summit look to ban Moscow from exporting gold extracted from its soil, Russian firms have turned to Ankara, where they have found all the necessary expertise to refine and sell gold they have mined abroad, and especially in Africa.
France recently brought together the largest international traders to support its initiative towards the countries most dependent on agricultural imports. But NGOs fear that the FARM Task Force overlooks longer-term agricultural issues in Africa.
Benefiting from a very tight market, oil traders feel free to call the shots in Cameroon, where they are never sanctioned. Only part of the oil ordered by the ministry of petroleum's last call for tenders has been delivered.
France will release €15m to a cash-strapped Chad next month.
The new president of the National Assembly has been under investigation in France for several months in a case pitting him against the French trading firm that dates back to 2016 and whose criminal aspect is still being investigated.
Earlier this month, the former head of Israel's armed forces, who is now chairman of the board of directors of the Synaptech Capital fund that invests in defence equipment, visited Abidjan and Conakry.
Inter-ethnic violence between Amharas and Oromos is increasing, particularly in the Wollega districts. The clashes involve a growing number of actors, who blame one another for massacres.
In addition to the economic and legislative reforms he is putting in place to attract foreign investors to Zambia, head of State Hakainde Hichilema might also be able to count on security support from above.
The final volumes of the Zondo commission's huge state capture inquiry criticise Cyril Ramaphosa's inaction during his time as Jacob Zuma's deputy. The report details, among other topics, a 9600-MW nuclear programme that Ramaphosa did not oppose despite warnings from Treasury.
A group of southern African states is advising and actively supporting the Zimbabwean traditional chief Fortune Charumbira's candidacy for the top seat of the Pan-African Parliament in the 29 June election hosted by South Africa.
SNRT will soon complete its takeover of the cash-strapped 2M and Medi 1 TV channels in a move that gives Mohammed VI's adviser, Fouad Ali El Himma, a means to distance his rival, the king's private secretary Mounir El Majidi, from the sector.
Public-private partnership (PPP) projects were at the heart of last week's Tunisia Investment Forum. The attending specialists included Ziad-Alexandre Hayek, who from 2006 to 2019 ran the Lebanese state entity in charge of privatisation and PPPs.
