Day: June 15, 2020
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Deborah Bräutigam: China Likely To Partner With the WHO For C19 Vaccine Distribution in Africa
China is working closely with Ethiopia, Egypt, and likely other African countries to lay the groundwork to deliver millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the continent. With the new cold-chain air bridge that was announced last week between Shenzhen and Addis Ababa, it's becoming ...
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French-Chinese Business Cooperation in Africa
Last month the China-Africa Research Initiative (CARI) at Johns Hopkins University hosted a French-language webinar that explored Franco-Chinese business cooperation in Africa. The discussion was conducted in French but now CARI has released an English-language summary of the key highlights from the three ...
How U.S.-Africa Policy Is Adapting To Competition With China
Recently, the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center and the Policy Center for the New South launched a pair of reports on external power competition in Africa, with one focused on traditional powers and the other on emerging powers in the region. One ...
Chinese Diplomats Are Now Leaning in To the “Wolf Warrior” Meme
The so-called "Wolf Warrior" meme that characterized Chinese diplomats in much the same way as the gung-ho, take-no-prisoners, Rambo style action star in the blockbuster movie was once roundly rejected by officials in Beijing. But no more. ...
China, African Union Break Ground on New HQ For the Africa Centers for Disease Control
Senior African Union officials together with Chinese diplomats led a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday at the site of the new Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Just as with the African ...
Wang Yi, China's Foreign Minister and S. Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs of India
In the space of 24 hours, between Sunday and Monday, the foreign ministers from both China and India laid out their respective governments’ positions on the escalating war in the Middle East. In Beijing, China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, was unsparing in his criticism of ...
A University in Hong Kong Now Accepting Applications for One of the World’s First China-Africa Master’s Degree Programs
Pursuing a master's degree in China-Africa relations is still quite difficult to do in many countries given the lack of dedicated programs or specialized teaching staff. But that may be starting to change. Hong Kong's Lingnan University announced on Friday that ...
Labor Minister, Chinese Embassy Agree That Without This Pink Card, No Zambian Official Can Inspect a Chinese Business
Late last week the Zambian Labor Minister Chanda Kaziya met with Ouyang Daobing, the commercial and economic officer at the Chinese embassy in Lusaka, to discuss the recent crackdown on Chinese businesses by mayor Miles Sampa. Mayor Sampa personally intervened to shut ...
David Hundeyin: The U.S. Drive to Investigate the Head of the AfDB Doesn’t Have Anything to do With Corruption, It’s All About China
Business Day (Nigeria) columnist David Hundeyin echoed the increasingly popular sentiment in Nigeria that geopolitics, not an effort to fight corruption is behind the U.S.-led drive to investigate Akinwumi Adesina, the popular president of the African Development Bank. Hundeyin, ...
New Analysis: Africa Doesn’t Have a Debt Problem, Certain African Countries Do
A new report by the Beijing-based consultancy Development Reimagined provides some badly-needed context for the broader discussion about the burgeoning debt crisis in certain African countries. The analysis focused on whether African countries will have sufficient funds available to provide ...
Nigeria’s Transport Minister: China Expected to Approve $5.3 Billion in New Loans
Nigeria's Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, confirmed that China is expected to approve a new $5.3 billion loan package to build the Ibadan-Kano rail line. The minister made the comments during an interview with the Nigerian news network ChannelsTV and added that he expects the funds ...
While the Federal Government Moves to Borrow More Money From China, Nigeria’s House of Representatives Sounds the Alarm
While Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and his cabinet appear increasingly determined to borrow more from China to fund infrastructure projects, even amid the current economic crisis, critics in the House of Representatives are expressing alarm over the lack transparency in the Chinese loans.
Another High Profile Chinese Ambassador in Africa Heads Home
China's ambassador to Kenya, Wu Peng, will reportedly make a quiet exit tomorrow when he boards a flight back to Beijing where he'll apparently take on a new assignment. Wu is the second high-profile Chinese envoy in ...