China will host a summit between Iran and the Gulf Cooperation Council later this year, reports the Wall Street Journal. The summit with the six-country bloc (made up of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait) will further solidify the normalization of diplomatic ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia, brokered by China this weekend.
The announcement follows December’s first summit between China and Arab states, where GCC leaders welcomed President Xi Jinping’s ...
Day: September 4, 2020
The Joy and Pain of Developing Kenya’s Specialty Tea Production
Tea farmers in Kenya’s central highlands say Chinese interest in their tea is improving their income, but the journey for Chinese tea enthusiast and founder of the Chinya Tea Development Company Lewis Gao has not been easy. He came to Kenya ...
How China’s Evolving Energy Mix Will Impact Its Foreign Policy in Africa
Since 2008, China has been gradually shifting its oil procurement strategy away from Africa towards producers in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf. Today, Angola is the only African country in China's list of top ten suppliers. Security is ...
Africa to G20 Members: Pay a Little Now or Pay a Lot Later
When things fall apart no one will be able to say they didn't see it coming. Last year, when we spoke with Ghananian conservationist Kofi Agbogah, executive director of the NGO Hεn Mpoano, for the ...
China’s New Ambassador to Kenya Will Face Many of the Same Challenges He Encountered in Nigeria
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta received credentials from six new envoys on Wednesday including China's Zhou Pingjian. The new Chinese ambassador replaced Wu Peng who recently returned to Beijing to become the Foreign Ministry's top diplomat for sub-Saharan Africa. ...
Morocco Isn’t Going to Rely Only on China For a COVID-19 Vaccine
With more than 65,000 COVID-19 infections, Morocco is one of Africa's major hot spots in the ongoing pandemic, so it's not surprising that the government is moving quickly to position the country as a vaccine hub. Rabat is ...
Analysis from Cobus van Staden
China Tries to Maintain Mideast Diplomatic Momentum With Summit Planned for Later This Year
Cobus van Staden Has a Warning For Rich Countries: Either You Pay Now to Help Africa With COVID-19 or You Will Pay Later
Cobus van Staden, the senior China-Africa researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg and co-founder of The China Global South Project, published a sharply-worded commentary that condemned the international community's response to the COVID-19 as "woefully naive."
Forget About Oil, Cobalt is the Resource of the Future
Strong demand for electric vehicles in China and Europe is expected to bolster the output of cobalt and copper in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's mining sector. Today, the DRC is the Saudi Arabia or cobalt. 60-70% of the world's cobalt originates there and China is ...
Heather Li Introduces You to Some of China’s Most Dynamic Young African Entrepreneurs
Heather Li is the bubbly, always smiling, endlessly energetic force of nature behind the Shanghai-based Dot Connector, a PR/marketing initiative focused on African tech start-ups and entrepreneurs in China. She's kicked off a new video series where she interviews young Africans ...