Category: Africa

Why Wang Yi Chose Somalia, Ethiopia, Tanzania & Lesotho for His 2026 Africa Tour

China's Wang Yi kicked off a four-nation, week-long Africa tour this week, marking a signature tradition for Beijing: making the continent the foreign minister's first overseas trip of the new year. Wang visited Ethiopia and ...

Analysis from Cobus van Staden

CGSP Take: How Does the Venezuela Crisis Affect China’s Relationship with the Global South?

By Cobus van Staden, CGSP Head of Research,
China has sharply criticized the Trump administration’s incursion into Venezuela and its detention of President Nicolás Maduro. 

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China FM Skips Historic Somalia Visit, Lands in Tanzania

China's top diplomat Wang Yi skipped what would have been a historic visit to Somalia on Friday, instead proceeding straight to Tanzania on his tour of African countries. The visit would have been the first by a Chinese foreign minister to ...

China’s Xi Congratulates Guinea Junta Chief on Election Win

Chinese President Xi Jinping has congratulated Guinea's junta chief on his presidential election victory, state media reported Monday, a day after the African country's supreme court validated his landslide result. Mamady Doumbouya was credited with 86.72 percent of votes cast in ...

China’s Long Bet on Sudanese Oil Comes to an End

China and Sudan’s three-decade-long “oil diplomacy” has completely collapsed, a Chinese think tank said, after the leading state-owned oil firm China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) officially withdrew from its final complex in the African oil-rich but war-torn nation. The think tank ...

Cameroon Goes All in on Chinese Safe Cities, but at What Cost?

In 2014, the Cameroonian government launched the “Cameroon Intelligent City Project,” where 70 Huawei-supplied CCTV cameras were installed across six localities. The project expanded through several phases, with some sources noting that the government hopes to install 24,000 cameras nationwide. By December 2025, government borrowing for these initiatives had ...

U.S. Grants Loan for Strategic Angola Rail Line

The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) said it has agreed a loan for the refurbishment of a rail link in Angola strategic for the transport of minerals which are in high demand at American firms. In an announcement Wednesday, the ...

Kidnapping of Chinese Influencer in South Africa Sparks Alarm Over “High-Profile Travel”

A kidnapping in South Africa has sent shockwaves through China’s internet, not only because a Chinese traveler was violently targeted, but because the scheme appears to have been orchestrated with help from a Chinese national. The victim, a top travel influencer with more than 26 million ...

China’s Role in Africa’s Industrialization: Obstacle, Partner, or Both?

Africa’s industrialization push is colliding with the defining economic question of this era: how can any country or region climb the manufacturing value chain so long as China dominates industrial production of pretty much, well, everything? 

Kenya Sees a Third Wave of Chinese Investment, Led This Time by Shandong

Over more than a decade in Kenya, the popular WeChat commentator Xiao Nie  “小聂说事儿,” witnessed three waves of Chinese investment. The first came from Guangdong and Fujian, who are small-scale commodity traders. The second was led by Zhejiang entrepreneurs in manufacturing, wholesale, and e-commerce, followed by a ...

Why the U.S.-DRC Mining Deal is Bad News For China

The U.S. and the DR Congo signed a landmark deal on critical minerals during President Félix Tshisekedi's visit to the White House this week. The pact provides the U.S. with extraordinary access to the Congolese mining sector and is widely expected ...

In Congo’s Cobalt Belt, a Chinese Miner’s Waste Leaves Villages Poisoned and Furious

By Camille Lafont Carrying her sore-pocked daughter across her decaying field, Helene Mvubu says she is one of thousands to have fallen victim to the toxic waste defiling the Democratic Republic of Congo's mining capital. ...

Kenya Launches $1.5 Billion Road Project With Chinese Firms

Kenya on Friday launched a $1.5 billion road expansion project financed by Chinese firms, including a state-owned company. Beijing is among Kenya's top five development lenders, with Nairobi owing China some $4.7 billion, according to official 2025 data. ...

East Africa Court Dismisses Activists’ Case Over Massive Franco-Chinese Oil Project

The East African Court of Justice has dismissed a case challenging TotalEnergies' massive oil project in Uganda and Tanzania, after civil society groups sought a full trial over the controversial development. Four civil society groups first filed a petition in 2020 ...
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