Country: Ghana

By Ding Fei As African cities experience some of the fastest urban growth rates in the world, China has become a major bilateral financier for urban infrastructure. From Nairobi’s elevated expressways to Lagos’s airport upgrades and Addis Ababa’s ...

Singapore appointed DBS Bank as its second RMB clearing facility, and is facilitating the secondary listing of Chinese companies, reforms aimed at boosting trade and investment with China. The changes will make it easier for Chinese firms to raise capital, settle RMB transactions, and list shares in Singapore. 

China is preparing to hand over a newly built headquarters complex in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a 15-member regional bloc that promotes economic integration and political cooperation across West Africa. The ...

Maxwell Akalaare Adombila and Polina Devitt Ghana's state-run artisanal gold exporter is preparing to shift cargoes to alternative refining hubs if flight disruptions to the United Arab Emirates persist, two sources with knowledge of the matter said, as the Iran 

Shenzhen-based Transsion Holdings is now a massive Chinese technology company that few people outside of Africa and certain parts of Asia have heard of. Even in China, the brand, now the world's 5th-largest mobile phone producer, remains largely unknown.

China is rapidly expanding its military engagement with African countries through a combination of joint exercises, growing arms sales, officer training programs, and deeper security cooperation under its Global Security Initiative. This widening footprint is ...

Ghana is the newest member of the Chinese-initiated International Organization for Mediation (IOMed). Ambassador Kojo Bonsu on Tuesday signed on as a founding member of the Hong Kong-based international mediation body that now includes 38 other countries. The IOMed launched last ...

This is a free preview of the upcoming Africa EVs Weekly Digest, part of the new CGSP Intelligence service. Many African countries are talking up local electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing, but the lack of infrastructure and reliable energy remains ...

Every year, illegal mining, fishing, and logging drain billions of dollars from West Africa's economies as the problem persists largely unchecked, with Chinese actors playing an outsized role. Fueled by chronic corruption among local regulators across the region and seemingly insatiable demand ...

By Felix Brender 王哲謙 Some of North America’s (and perhaps the world’s) leading Africanists gathered last week in Atlanta for the African Studies Association’s Annual Meeting. As ever, China loomed large on the agenda. What was new, however, was not ...