Month: August 2021
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Ambassador: More Chinese FDI Going to the DR Congo Than Anywhere Else in Africa
Chinese companies have invested $176 million dollars in the DR Congo during the first half of this year, more than any other country in Africa, according to Ambassador Zhu Jing. That's basically the only takeaway from Ambassador Zhu's ...
Photo of DRC Soldiers Helping Chinese Small-Scale Miners Sparks Widespread Outrage on Congolese Social Media
This image has been circulating widely on Congolese Twitter for the past 24 hours. It shows Chinese miners working together with DRC army soldiers (FARDC) in what appears to be a form of small-scale mining in the town Bunia in the far eastern province ...
Fact Check: No, 73 Chinese Miners in the DRC Were Not Arrested for Kidnapping and Eating Children
A fake news story is circulating now on Congolese Twitter that claims 73 Chinese miners in Katanga province have been arrested for kidnapping children and then eating them (yes, cannibalism). The story is fake and was debunked by ...
New CSIS Report Compares U.S. and Chinese Military Engagement in Africa
While the number of senior Chinese political officials who visit Africa every year far outpaces those from the United States, it's a very different story when it comes to military visits and overall engagement. In fact, "Beijing’s observable interactions with current ...
Kenya Wants to Ban Chinese Fish Imports Again. It Didn’t End Well The Last Time.
The Kenyan parliament will move forward with legislation to outlaw imported Chinese fish from entering the country. Legislators confirmed on Tuesday that the Agriculture Committee is finalizing new regulations aimed to boost the local fishing sector by restricting imports of Chinese seafood, particularly frozen tilapia.
Why Is the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Lending Money to Rwanda?
It came as a bit of a surprise to some that the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) approved its first project in sub-Saharan African country a few weeks ago with a $100 million loan to Rwanda as part of the bank's COVID-19 Crisis Recovery ...
Chinese Businesses in Uganda Set Up Database of Bad Former Employees
If you're a Chinese business operator in Uganda and have had employees who've cheated, stole from your business, or caused property damage, you can email safelyxikun@gmail.com to have their name added to a new database of bad employees that's accessible by other Chinese companies in the country.
Carnegie-Tsinghua Scholar Tang Xiaoyang on the “Real Situation Confronting Chinese Companies in Africa”
One of China's largest and most influential online portals, Observer (观察), published an interview this week with well-known China-Africa scholar Tang Xiaoyang, deputy director of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, about some of the difficulties that Chinese companies are encountering in ...
President Akufo-Addo Taps Ghana’s Former Ambassador to China to Run One of the Country’s Two Oil Refineries
Ghanaian President Akuof-Addo appointed Edward Boateng, the highly regarded former ambassador to China, to become the Managing Director of Ghana's embattled Tema Oil Refinery (TOR). Although Boateng served in the Ghanaian foreign service from 2017 until last year, he comes from ...
China to Kenya: It’s Payback Time
Kenya's National Treasury has resumed debt repayments to China after a 6-month debt deferral period expired in June. The Kenyan government had hoped to be able to extend that through the end of the year but Chinese creditors, namely the China ...
No Reprieve for Kenya’s Loan Bid as Chinese Banks Resist Move
Kenya is moving forward with repaying Chinese creditors after the Treasury failed to secure an extension of a 6-month debt repayment holiday that expired in June. The Treasury said on Monday that it will meet all of its Chinese debt obligations, particularly to the China Exim Bank ...
China Calls For Equitable Vaccine Distribution Even as Belt & Road Countries Are Benefitting More Than Others
China has repeatedly called for fair and equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines around the world but it appears that its own vaccine distributions favor Belt and Road member countries. 60% of China's total global vaccine distributions, or 350 million ...