Category: Investment

The head of India's Export-Import Bank brushed away concerns that India is being outdone in Africa and rejected the whole notion that somehow the two Asian giants must compete with one another on the continent.

The NewThink podcast is a new show hosted by two of Washington's most well-known Africa analysts, Aubrey Hruby from the Atlantic Council and Former Liberian Public Works Minister and current fellow at the Center for Global Development, Gyude Moore. In this episode that focuses on how ...

Chinese investors have been wary of the African market. For a long time, China's cash-rich venture capital, private equity, and corporate investors have preferred the stability in the U.S. or the cultural familiarity in Southeast Asia's markets. Africa, in their view, ...

The Bloomberg BusinessWeek Podcast featured an interview in their weekly show with TechCrunch journalist Jake Bright who's broken of the deal news around the recent spate of Chinese venture capital investments in African start-ups. The discussion with Bright that focuses on ...

Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Aubrey Hruby shared her views about this weekend's "Netpreneur" competition organized by the Jack Ma Foundation in Accra, Ghana where she picked up on the same sense of optimism and excitement about the African market that Chinese investors seem ...

The pace of Chinese investment in Africa's tech sector appears to be heating up anew with a $120 million second funding round, also known as a Series B, for the Nigeria-based fintech company OPay. What's interesting here is that some of China's largest tech players, including the ...

Nairobi-based Malawian tech entrepreneur Wiza Jalakasi offers his take on the Opay vs. PalPay duel that is emerging. Follow Wiza on Twitter at @wizaj and find out more about his portfolio on his personal website at wiza.jalaka.si.

Now that it's becoming more difficult for Chinese venture capital (VC) firms to invest in the United States where their money is increasingly regarded as "toxic," these investors are now looking farther afield for new opportunities and that's bringing them all the way to Africa. Evidence ...

China’s largest port operator accused the Tanzanian government of spreading “false information” and misguiding the public about the cause of stalled negotiations over the $10 billion Bagamoyo port development it is backing in the country. China Merchants Holdings International (CMHI) has ...

China's Exim Bank announced plans to team up with Morocco's Attijariwafa Bank to create a $5 billion fund to promote African exports to China and to establish new industrial zones on the continent, according to a report published by Reuters. The ...

Amid worsening U.S.-China relations, Chinese venture capital investments in the United States have fallen to a four-year low and with their own economy slowing, investors are keen to put that money to work somewhere and some of it is now finding its way to ...

It wasn't that long ago when France was by far the dominant foreign actor in West Africa. "Francafrique's" once ubiquitous power allowed it to dominate virtually all aspects of political and economic life in its former colonies.