After almost four months in charge of a regional intervention force deployed to restore peace to eastern DRC, the South African is frustrated by a shortage of men and resources. And a chronically strained relationship with MONUSCO isn't helping.
Both the Mauritanian and Senegalese governments now have reports contesting BP's estimates of the cost of bringing the big cross-border gas field into production. They plan to join forces to press for a renegotiation.
Top officials are due to meet this week to identify a new head of the Kenya Defence Forces following the death in a helicopter crash earlier this month of General Francis Ogolla. President William Ruto will have to juggle three military branches as well as various Kenyan communities.
The construction of Rwanda's Qatari-funded new airport is set to enter its final phase following the completion of earthworks by Portugal's Mota Engil. Five candidates are in the running to build it.
Financial affairs attaché Ahmed H. M. Mohammed was involved in an altercation with the French police but the Libyan prime minister was not satisfied with the way the ambassador, Khaled Kagigi, dealt with the incident.
Spanish, Turkish and South Korean firms could all enter the competition alongside the French company Naval Group, despite the many financial and technical questions still surrounding the new port activities in the economic capital.