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Kenyan Presidential Hopefuls Want to Sell Pot and Avocados to Repay Country’s Debts to China
It's not unusual for China to emerge as a contentious hot-button electoral issue during presidential campaigns in Africa but rarely as flamboyantly as in Kenya's increasingly colorful race. Two of the candidates, one a major party contender, the other, well, not ...
First Signs of Joint Sino-Russian Diplomacy in Africa Emerge in Guinea and Kenya
Signs of closer Sino-Russian diplomatic coordination emerged in Africa just three days after President Vladimir Putin met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing. Ambassadors from both countries participated in joint meetings ...
Another African EV Start-Up Using Chinese Technology Gets Seed Funding
Kenya-based EV start-up BasiGo closed a $4.3 million seed funding round to assemble and sell electric-powered buses. The company plans to supply more than 1,000 mass transit electric buses to operators throughout Kenya over the next five years. Those buses, incidentally, will all be supplied ...
Kenya’s Parliament Launches Inquiry Into Chinese Contracts
The months-long dispute over the transparency of Chinese infrastructure contracts in Kenya intensified on Monday when the parliament launched an official inquiry to identify "directors and/or representatives" involved in those deals. Parliamentary opponents of President Uhuru Kenyatta, led by National Assembly ...
The New Chinese-built Nairobi Expressway is Not Yet Done and Already It’s Transformed the Landscape of the Capital
The new Chinese-built Nairobi Expressway is just a few short weeks away from opening to the public but already the highway has transformed the landscape of the Kenyan capital. The $646 million, 27.1-kilometer toll road slices ...
The Future of Chinese Infrastructure Finance in Africa
Nigerian Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi acknowledged this week that he will no longer rely on China to fund two major railways and will have now have to look elsewhere for the money. The minister's comments shouldn't come as a big ...
WEEK IN REVIEW: Ethiopian Airlines Moving to Capitalize on Growing China-Africa E-Commerce Trade
There's good news and bad news in Kenya's latest trade figures, released by the National Bureau of Statistics. The good news is that exports jumped 17% in the January-November period last year to $5.9 billion. Higher regional demand, particularly from Uganda, for Kenyan food and industrial output helped to ...
Kenya’s ICT Minister is Now The Third High-Ranking Official to Defend the Government’s Refusal to Publicize SGR Contract
Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Informations, Communications Technology Joe Mucheru spent almost an hour on Spice FM's national radio and television morning broadcast on Wednesday touting the accomplishments of President Uhuru Kenyatta's administration in promoting transparency in government. Mucheru strenuously pushed back ...
Detection of Omicron in Chinese Port Cities Sparks Fears of Supply Chain Disruptions in Africa
The recent detections of the highly contagious Omicron variant in several of China's largest port cities is prompting renewed concerns among African traders of potentially painful supply chain disruptions. Although only a few people have been ...
Kenya’s SGR Scandal Isn’t Going Away
This week saw the announcement that the United Kingdom’s international development investment arm, the CDC Group, will invest $1 billion in Kenyan infrastructure. This will include funding a new rail transit hub in Nairobi. It’s interesting that the UK is leaning into ...
6-Day China-Africa Great Lakes Import Expo Concludes in Wuxi
A 6-day convention aimed at promoting trade between China and countries surrounding the Great Lakes region in southeastern Africa wrapped up on Thursday in Wuxi. In all, representatives from 12 African states took part in the event in eastern China, including countries like Angola that are not ...
Four Chinese Nationals Refused Entry in the DR Congo, Deported Back to China
A group of four Chinese nationals who arrived at the Lubumbashi International Airport in the southern DR Congo last week were refused entry into the country and were deported back to China. Congolese immigration authorities claim the four, three men, and ...