Country: Namibia

This is a free preview of the upcoming Africa EVs Weekly Digest, part of the new CGSP Intelligence service. The U.S.-Israel attacks on Iran are reverberating far beyond the Middle East, raising difficult questions for African economies that ...

​China's latest entry into Egypt, where it will establish a $658 million industrial complex focused on producing phosphoric acid using locally extracted phosphate ore, enhances the African nation's manufacturing profile. The China-Egypt industrial complex move follows promises China made ...

Over the past decade, China positioned itself as a leader in copper refining, accounting for more than half of global capacity. Its strategy designed to secure control over key critical minerals meant to power everything from clean energy grids to electric vehicles, defense equipment, and construction ...

Namibia may have quietly revealed a significant addition to its defense arsenal during a military parade this week: what appears to be a Chinese-made Aisheng ASN-209 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The drone was seen this week during the Namibian Defense Force’s ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi ended a four-nation Africa tour on Thursday that included stops in Namibia, the Republic of Congo, Chad, and Nigeria. Other than a $255 million railway loan deal for Nigeria, there were very few other major announcements ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi emphasized China’s support for African modernization during his meetings with senior Namibian officials on Monday. Wang is in the country as part of the annual Foreign Minister tour of the continent, traditionally the Chinese FM's first trip of the year.

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Namibia on Monday and hailed the "time-honored friendship" between Africa and his country, which he called the continent's "most reliable partner." The Asian power's first diplomatic visit of the year has traditionally been to Africa, ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made a brief stopover in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Sunday en route to Namibia, where he will begin a four-nation, week-long Africa tour. Wang's visit to the continent marks the 35th consecutive year that a Chinese Foreign Minister makes ...

2024’s Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) takes place against the backdrop of two significant trends. First, the role of the Global South, and debate over whether China should be considered a part of it, has become a more prominent question amidst escalating U.S.-China tensions and an increasingly ...

A post by the U.S. embassy in China about the use of GPS to boost giraffe conservation in Namibia became the unlikely location for a collective freakout about the Chinese economy. By Monday, the post received about 166,000 comments, many bemoaning ...