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The Message From the Global Financial System to Africans Seeking Debt Relief Is Clear: You’re on Your Own
Ghana's increasingly outspoken finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta is giving voice to the growing frustration across Africa that calls for urgent debt relief have largely failed. In an interview this week with Bloomberg, Minister Ofori-Atta said the global financial system is failing Africa and places ...
A Controversial China-Africa Documentary is Now Available to View Online… But You’ll Have to Hurry
The controversial documentary about Enock Alu, a teenager growing up in a Chinese Buddhist orphanage in Malawi, who is torn between his African identity and his Chinese upbringing is now available to view for free online for a limited period. The film, ...
Meaningful Debt Relief Probably Isn’t Going to Happen. We Should All be Worried.
The Financial Times newspaper deserves a lot of credit for calling out the world's wealthiest governments for their glaring hypocrisy on the issue of African debt relief. While treasuries in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and China come up with new creative solutions to insulate their ...
Huawei in Africa: Problems? What Problems?
While Huawei is facing intense scrutiny in certain European countries, the United States, and parts of Asia, the Chinese telecom giant is seemingly unimpeded in African markets. Just as in the brewing political standoff between the U.S. and China, where African leaders are doing their best to ...
Jack Ma Foundation Selects the Top 50 Finalists For This Year’s African Business Heroes Award
African tech Twitter exploded with excitement yesterday when the top 50 finalists for the immensely popular African Business Heroes (ABH) award was announced. 22,000 people from every country across the continent registered for this year's competition, according to event organizers.
China, African Union Move Forward to Build New Center for Disease Control HQ
The African Union's Commissioner for Social Affairs, Amira Elfadil, attended a signing ceremony on Monday in Addis Ababa with representatives from China's Ministry of Commerce to finalize the agreement for construction of the Africa Centers for Disease Control. Finalizing the deal to ...
China’s Escalating Conflict With the U.S. Prompts Re-Think on Foreign Aid Policy
Until now, international development assistance has not been a central theme of the increasingly bitter feud between the United States and China, but it could now be emerging as a new front in this conflict. "China and the U.S. are competing in many different areas, with foreign ...
The U.S. Now Wants to Compete With China in the Fast-Growing Armed Drone Market in Africa and the Middle East
The United States is easing restrictions on the sale of armed drone technology to governments in the Middle East and elsewhere in a bid to avoid being left behind by Chinese competitors in this fast-growing segment. The United States has now ...
Chinese Tech in Africa: What Happened to OPay & What Will Happen to Huawei?
Chinese-owned Nigerian tech company OPay started 2020 with $170 million of cash bursting from its pockets but even that much money wasn't enough to save the company from the dramatic economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 ...
The U.S.’ Fortress-like Missions Look a Lot Different in Africa Than They Do in China
Anyone who's passed by a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Africa will appreciate the sentiments expressed by popular Nigerian political commentator Onye Nkuzi (nom de plume.) He pointed out how pedestrians are able to walk right outside the walls of the former consulate in Chengdu (also ...
China Scholar and Former Aussie PM Kevin Rudd on What Countries Need to do To Better Manage Relations With Beijing
Twenty years ago China had an "Africa policy" but effectively lacked any meaningful engagement strategies at the national level. Now, the situation is very different and a generation of Chinese diplomats, many of whom have served multiple tours on the continent, have been instrumental in formulating country-specific ...
In the New Era of “China Against the World” Where Does Africa Stand?
Africa's political importance to China is steadily rising as Beijing's relations with a growing list of countries in Asia, Europe, and the Americas dangerously deteriorate. Conflict has already broken out between China and India, leaving Asia's two largest powers bitterly divided. Even more worrisome ...