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Ericsson Sues Transsion in Nigeria, Brazil, and India
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Africa’s Energy Future: China’s Role and the Power of Data
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Mapping Power Plants: What China’s Energy Footprint in Africa Tells Us
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Chinese Companies Are Changing the Way They Operate in Africa
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Recapping the Fundamentals: Key Lessons on Chinese Financing for Power Projects
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China Launches Coordinated Media Campaign to Promote New Global Governance Initiative in Africa
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Chinese Exports to Africa Soar
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How China is Transforming Africa’s Power Sector
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Nigeria Deports Wanted Chinese Gang Leader
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Nigeria Deports 60 Chinese, 39 Filipino Scammers
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Inside the Fine Print: Understanding Finance Contracts in Chinese-supported Power Projects
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Japan Hosts African Leaders for Development Conference
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Bundles, Banks, and Builders: Inside China’s Finance Models for Power Projects in Africa
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“1001 Days of Pouring Concrete in Africa”: A Chinese Engineer’s Memoir Sparks Debate Online
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China’s Belt and Road Shatters Expectations With Record Activity
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Plugging into African Agency
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China’s Vital, Yet Poorly Understood Role in Africa’s Energy Sector
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For China’s Cross-Border Retailers, Africa Is the New Southeast Asia
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Top Chinese Party School Official Visits Nigeria as Part of the CPC’s Africa Outreach
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From Phones to E-Bikes: China’s Transsion Targets Africa’s Mobility Sector
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Chinese Scam Syndicates Shift Base from Southeast Asia to Africa, Report Reveals
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Africa Now Has Duty-Free Access to the China Market, Now What?
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Ignoring China Won’t Help African Countries Move up the Critical Mineral Value Chain
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China to Lagos: Localizing EV Production in Nigeria
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Nigeria Court Orders Seizure Of 73 Properties Linked To Chinese Scam Suspects
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Nigeria Court Orders Seizure Of 73 Properties Linked To Chinese Scam Suspects
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Nigeria Court Orders Seizure Of 73 Properties Linked To Chinese Scam Suspects
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China, Nigeria to Cooperate in Combatting Cybercrime
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Nigeria’s Lithium Boom: Chinese Buyers, Local Struggles, and a Global Race
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Wraps Up Low Key Africa Tour
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Chinese Foreign Minister Pledges Military Aid for Africa
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China’s Foreign Minister Kicks off Africa Tour in Namibia
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Chinese Company in West Africa Turns Nigeria’s Political Dysfunction Into a Controversial Marketing Campaign
A Chinese wholesale company in Nigeria sparked widespread controversy with its new ad that leverages the West African country's political dysfunction to promote its services. The ad opens with a news clip of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu telling viewers that he "feels ...
Heightened Competition in the African Phone Market Weighs on Transsion Profits
Shenzhen-based mobile phone giant Transsion Holdings has dominated the African market for over a decade, outpacing Samsung, Apple, and a handful of other Chinese brands. But now, the maker of Tecno, Itel, and Infinix brand phones say their rivals are catching up and hammering the company's profits. ...
[DOUBLE EPISODE] The China-Africa Summit Debrief
The three-day Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit wrapped up in Beijing on Friday. The big headline from this year's gathering was the announcement that China will provide $50.7 billion in financing to African countries over the next three years.
FOCAC and China’s Global Messaging
This year’s Forum on China-Africa Cooperation was partly aimed at reinvigorating a relationship many had framed as declining. Preceded by new data showing that Chinese project financing in Africa increased after a multi-year fall, China sought to use FOCAC to present an image of its engagement with ...
5 Takeaways From Xi’s FOCAC Speech
Chinese President Xi Jinping's highly anticipated opening address at the ninth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit on Thursday sent a clear message that Beijing remains firmly committed to its strong ties with African governments and intends to deepen its engagement on the continent.
Nigeria and China Announce New Cooperation Agreements
China and Nigeria signed a raft of deals aimed at broadening their economic cooperation in the run-up to the FOCAC summit in Beijing. Nigerian President Bola Tinubu met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Tuesday. They announced the elevation of ...
Xi Hosts Dozens of African Leaders at China’s Biggest Summit in Years
Chinese leader Xi Jinping will host over two dozen African leaders at a lavish dinner in Beijing on Wednesday, kicking off the city's biggest summit in years with promises of cooperation in infrastructure, energy and education. China, the world's second-largest economy, ...
Xi’s Flurry of Meetings in the Run-Up to the FOCAC Summit
Chinese President Xi Jinping held successive meetings with African leaders as Beijing gears up for the triennial Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit officially starting on Wednesday. On Monday, Xi met with eight African counterparts from the Democratic Republic of Congo, South ...
African Leaders Arrive in Beijing Ahead of FOCAC Summit
Leaders from across Africa arrived in Beijing over the weekend ahead of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit that begins on Wednesday. Chinese officials did not publish an advance list of which leaders would participate in this year's FOCAC, but ...
China Rolls out the Red Carpet for African Leaders
By Oliver Hotham China on Monday rolled out the red carpet for leaders from across Africa, seeking to deepen ties with the resource-rich continent it has furnished with billions in loans for infrastructure and development. ...
African Leaders in Beijing Eyeing Big Loans and Investment
By Oliver Hotham African leaders will arrive in China's capital this week, seeking funds for big-ticket infrastructure projects as they face mounting great power competition over resources and influence on the continent. China has expanded ...
Nigerian President Heads to France Amid Seized Jet Row With Chinese Creditor
Nigeria's president headed to France on Monday dogged by a row over jet planes impounded by a French court in a dispute pitting Abuja against a Chinese company. An airport source told AFP that Bola Ahmed Tinubu was flying on the ...
More Finance, Less Emissions: Chinese Investment in Africa for Low-Carbon Industrialization
By Keyi Tang, Solomon Owusu and Gideon Ndubuisi As African and Chinese leaders prepare for the upcoming Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), it is imperative to consider the environmental implications of China's growing economic presence in Africa. ...
A New Vision for European Engagement in Africa (Beyond Confronting China)
Europe is Africa's largest trading partner and its largest source of foreign direct investment. But a lot of that economic engagement is powered by inertia, left over from Europe's long, painful history of colonial exploitation in Africa.
Chinese Phone Brands Benefit From Reduced Inflation in Global South, Shipments Jump 12%
Shipments of mobile phones around the world increased by 12% in the second quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2023, according to new data by the market research firm Canalys. While Samsung and Apple held on to ...
How China’s Changing Economy is Impacting Africa?
Back in the early 2000s, when Chinese engagement in Africa started to ramp up, China was enjoying double-digit growth and devoured vast quantities of African oil, minerals, and timber to feed its surging manufacturing sector. ...
Across 34 Countries, Nearly Half Disapprove of Biden’s China Policy, According to New Poll
U.S. President Joe Biden's China policy is getting mixed reviews from people surveyed in 34 countries by the Pew Research Center. Residents in Kenya and Nigeria were most favorable, with 56% and 54% approval ratings respectively. But Washington's tougher engagement strategy ...
Nigeria’s Dyed Cloth Traders Feel Heat From China, Inflation
By Kadiatou Sakho Despite the rain pelting Balogun market in Lagos, Ajoke takes her time choosing the tie-dye fabric known as adire that she wants to give as a gift. The popular textile, traditionally dyed ...
The Future of Chinese Development Finance in Africa
Chinese development finance in Africa today is a small fraction of what it was a decade ago when Beijing's policy banks provided billions of dollars in loans to countries across the continent. But while those ...
Chinese-Financed Light Rail Launches in Nigeria’s Capital Abuja
It took 12 years to build, but work on the Abuja light rail is finally complete. President Bola Tinubu officially commissioned the Chinese-financed and built commuter rail line on Wednesday and announced that rides would be free for all residents in the capital until December.
Why It May Be Premature to Trust Nigerian, Kenyan Media Reports on New Chinese Railway Funding
A word of caution about a flurry of headlines circulating in the Kenyan and Nigerian press this week claiming that China has committed to spending billions of dollars on new railway projects in both countries. Something just doesn't sound right about these stories. It's interesting ...
Chinese Contractor Completes Construction of New Nigerian Transportation University
The Chinese contractor that built a new $50 million transportation university in northern Nigeria formally handed over the facility on Friday to the Federal government at a ceremony in the capital, Abuja. The new university was built as part of a ...
China-Africa Relations in the Era of Great Power Competition
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Chinese Mobile Phone Giant Transsion Delivered Outstanding Financial Results, But Investors Still Ditched the Stock. Why?
Transsion, the world's fourth largest phone company that dominates the device market across large swathes of the Global South, shed a stunning $2 billion of its market cap in a single day last month after investors dumped the company's stock en masse. What's ...
A Taliban security personnel operating an anti-aircraft gun keeps watch for Pakistani airstrikes near the Torkham border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Nangarhar province on February 27, 2026 following overnight cross-border fighting between the two countries. Photo by AIMAL ZAHIR / AFP
Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif declared "open war" against Afghanistan on Friday amid a surge of fighting between the two South Asian neighbors. Pakistan said it's retaliating against Afghanistan for a series of attacks, including a suicide bombing in early February that killed at least 36 people ...
