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While the Federal Government Moves to Borrow More Money From China, Nigeria’s House of Representatives Sounds the Alarm
While Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and his cabinet appear increasingly determined to borrow more from China to fund infrastructure projects, even amid the current economic crisis, critics in the House of Representatives are expressing alarm over the lack transparency in the Chinese loans.
Another High Profile Chinese Ambassador in Africa Heads Home
China's ambassador to Kenya, Wu Peng, will reportedly make a quiet exit tomorrow when he boards a flight back to Beijing where he'll apparently take on a new assignment. Wu is the second high-profile Chinese envoy in ...
Kenya or Djibouti: Who Will China Support For a Seat on the UN Security Council?
With only a few days left before next week's election to fill the rotating open seat on the U.N. Security Council for the 2020-2021 term, a lot of the attention is now focused on China and whether it will throw its support behind Djibouti or Kenya.
South Sudan Closes a Chinese-Built Highway Due to Poor Quality
South Sudan's Vice President of Infrastructure announced this week that construction of the 392km Juba-Rumbek highway to Uganda will be suspended due to quality concerns. Portions of the road were swept away during a heavy storm ...
Kenya’s Parliament Warned That Unpaid Debts to China Threaten Standard Gauge Railway Service
Kenya Railways is falling behind in its debt service payments for one of the country's new Chinese-built and financed Standard Gauge Railway lines, according to a new budget report submitted to the Kenyan parliament on Wednesday. In its fiscal year 2020-2021 ...
China’s Ties With Nigeria Are a Lot Better Than They Seem
Lagos State University political science lecturer Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi joins Eric & Cobus this week to discuss the current state of China-Nigeria relations. After a turbulent past few months following the events in Guangzhou back in April and now calls ...
China’s Misguided Twitter Strategy in Africa
There's been a lot of discussions recently over the rise and effectiveness of China's new class of "Wolf Warrior" diplomats, named after the hugely successful 2018 China-Africa action movie, who've made a name for themselves by targeting the U.S. and other critics with aggressive ...
Scholar: There’s a Huge Difference Between Anti-Black Racism in the U.S. and China
Hong Kong-based scholar Roberto Castillo is one of the world's foremost experts on the African diaspora in China and Chinese-Black race relations. Lately, he's become increasingly frustrated by the false equivalency that many are drawing between discrimination against black/brown people in the U.S. and China. ...
A Lot of People Mistakenly Think China Suspended Bilateral Debt Repayments in Africa. They Didn’t.
China's recently published COVID-19 white paper was intended to clear up confusion about Beijing's efforts to contain the outbreak and what it's doing to support other countries, including economic assistance. And it's on the issue of debt relief, in ...
No Quick Fix Ahead For Chinese Debt Relief in Africa Warns Brookings Scholar Yun Sun
It's been a challenge to follow the progress of China's debt relief negotiations in Africa, since neither side seems willing to reveal much about the ongoing talks. But several months into the current economic crisis, it's becoming increasingly evident the quick fix across-the-board package that so many ...
In Almost Every Story About China-Africa, Global Times Makes Sure to Slip in a Dig at the United States
The Global Times newspaper has long played the role of China's most outspoken anti-U.S. media outlet -- both with its editorial content and its fiery Editor in Chief, Hi Xijin, who just today said low-income Americans live in an "autocratic ...
While the CCP is Viewed With Skepticism in the U.S. and EU, That’s Definitely Not the Case in Parts of Africa
Although China's ties with African civil society stakeholders have frayed considerably in recent months due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, debt-related issues and, most notably, the lasting bitter taste over what happened in Guangzhou, Beijing's relations with Africa's governing class at both the state and ruling-party levels ...