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As the co-chair for the upcoming 2021 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), Senegal is in a unique position to negotiate a better relationship with China as well as support other African countries to do so as well. At Development Reimagined, an ...
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed oversaw the launch this week of Ethio Telecom's new mobile money service "Tele- Birr" which will be powered by technology from Chinese telecom equipment giant Huawei. Ethiopian officials have high expectations for Tele-Birr's future ...
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Glencore’s CEO Warns Western Automakers About China’s Control of Congolese Cobalt
The CEO of the world's largest cobalt mining company issued a stern warning to U.S. and European automakers that they had better get their acts together to secure supplies of this precious metal or else risk becoming dependent on China for batteries to power their electric vehicles. ...
Veteran China Journalist Warns That China is Looking to Eventually Replace Australian Iron Ore With Suppliers in Brazil and Africa
There's been widespread speculation over the past year that China wants to develop new iron ore supply chains in Africa so it can stop buying from Australia in response to steadily worsening ties between the two countries. While there've been indications ...
Macky Sall Thanks His Friend Xi Jinping For Donating 300,000 Vaccines and Syringes
Senegalese President Macky Sall took to Twitter yesterday to express his gratitude to his "friend President Xi Jinping" for the donation of 300,000 COVID-19 vaccines and 300,000 syringes that landed in Dakar this week. The tweet provides the latest ...
Seychelles President: No Link Between Chinese Vaccine Efficacy and Surging Infection Rate
Seychelles President Wavel Ramkalawan insisted there's no link between a recent surge of COVID-19 infections and low efficacy rates of either the Chinese-made Sinopharm vaccine or the Covishield AstraZeneca jab imported from India. Infection rates have ...
Debt & Doses: Trinidad & Tobago Borrows Money From China to Pay For Chinese COVID-19 Vaccines
Colm Imbert (photo), finance minister of Trinidad & Tobago (TT), revealed this week that one of the terms in a new $204 million loan contract with China permitted the small Caribbean island state to purchase COVID-19 vaccines. The ...
Vaccines and Health Issues Top the Agenda at Silk Road Forum in What Could be a Preview of China’s Upcoming FOCAC Priorities
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke at the opening ceremony on Tuesday of the Fifth Silk Road International Exposition and the Investment and Trade Forum (aka the Silk Road Forum) in Xi'an where health and vaccine-related issues topped the agenda. ...
Two Senegalese Tourists Banned From Visiting the Great Wall of China After Venturing Into Restricted Areas
A pair of Senegalese tourists visiting the Great Wall last month learned a lesson of what happens in China when you break the rules. The two ventured into "wild" and "undeveloped" areas of the wall that are off-limits to visitors and were quickly apprehended. ...