Month: August 2021
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The African Union Is the Latest International Organization to Receive COVID-19 Donations From China
The African Union Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Bankole Adeoye, took delivery late last week of a batch of 15,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccines donated by the Chinese government. Chen Xufeng, the chargé d'affaires at the Chinese mission to the AU, said the vaccines were intended ...
Uganda Set to Receive More Chinese COVID Vaccines
Chinese ambassador Zhang Lizhong and Ugandan Vice President Jessica Alupo announced on Friday that China would provide a second shipment of 300,000 vaccines. It's not clear from the announcement if the vaccines will be sold or donated. The first batch delivered in July was delivered ...
Q&A: Why Now? The Domestic Politics Driving the DRC’s Review of Chinese Mining Contracts
Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi is fulfilling the promise he made last May to investigate foreign mining contracts to ensure they are fair and equitable. While the President did not single out the Chinese specifically, they're no doubt going to be disproportionately impacted given their outsized role in ...
Week in Review: Doses, Detainees and Diplomacy
Interpol has canceled the red notice arrest warrant requested by China for Uyghur activist Yidiresi Aishan, who was detained in Morocco last month. The red notice flagging Aishan as a member of “terrorist” organizations, and issued at China’s request, led Moroccan authorities to detain the 33-year-old computer ...
China’s Tech Lead in Africa Highlights B3W’s Biggest Problem
When Joe Biden took over from Donald Trump, many predicted that Trump’s foreign policy would soon follow him out the door. A few months down the line, it’s become clear that they agreed more frequently than expected even if their styles are very different. One example is ...
New Trends in Chinese Energy & Development Finance
U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry will be in China next week to pressure the government to renounce all future financing of coal power plants around the world. Although China generally does not respond well to foreign demands like ...
Chinese Mining Giant Denies Media Reports Its Mining Contracts in the DRC Are Under Investigation
China Molybdenum Co. (aka China Moly), the world's second-largest copper and cobalt mining company, has denied reports that its contracts for the massive Tenke Fungurume Mine (TFM) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are now under review by the government in Kinshasa. There is no "so-called investigation,"
China Plans to Ramp Up Digital Engagement in Africa
The Chinese government announced new plans this week to increase engagement in Africa's tech sector by expanding partnerships in a number of areas including digital economy, smart cities, and 5G mobile communications. “China will share the achievements of digital technology with Africa to ...
New Paper Calls For the Creation of a China-Africa Digital Currency Trading Hub
With cryptocurrencies becoming more popular around the world, China is now moving quickly to establish its own digital currency as a global standard, particularly in emerging markets like Africa where the mobile payment sector is booming. Early on, Beijing outlawed the ...
Don’t Blame Cheap Chinese Imports For Destroying Nigeria’s Textile Industry: It’s Our Fault, Say Industry Leaders
Nigeria's once-thriving textile sector is now fast disappearing due largely to competition from Chinese imports. But don't blame the Chinese, said Mansur Ahmed, president of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, who puts a lot of the responsibility for the industry's demise squarely at the ...
Fake… Pathetic… Losers… Liars… All in a Single Raging Chinese Diplomatic Tweet
The Chinese embassy in Zimbabwe has proved yet again how easy it is to provoke them into a furious froth on Twitter. The embassy took aim at well-known Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono who re-tweeted a truly mediocre article by ...
Hichilema May Find Out Getting Elected Was the Easy Part, Fixing Zambia’s Debt-Ridden Economy Will Be a Lot Harder
A peaceful transfer of power took place in Lusaka on Tuesday when opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema (photo) became Zambia's seventh president in the post-colonial era. President Hichilema made clear right from the start that the economy, specifically reducing the country's heavy debt load, will be ...