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China FM Skips Historic Somalia Visit, Lands in Tanzania

China's top diplomat Wang Yi skipped what would have been a historic visit to Somalia on Friday, instead proceeding straight to Tanzania on his tour of African countries. The visit would have been the first by a Chinese foreign minister to ...

China’s Foreign Minister Embarks on Africa Tour

China’s Foreign Ministry announced that Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania, and Lesotho from 7 to 12 January. It is a multi-decade convention that the Chinese Foreign Minister’s first overseas tour of the year is to Africa.

China, Zambia Kick-Start Revamp of Mineral Railway

China and Zambia launched on Thursday a $1.4 billion project to modernize a railway line that will transport minerals from the copper-rich southern African country to Indian Ocean ports for export. The upgrade comes as the United States and other partners ...

China, Zambia and Tanzania Seal $1.4 Billion Deal to Modernize Tazara Railway

More than a year after a memorandum of understanding was signed in Beijing, China, Zambia and Tanzania have finalized an agreement to rehabilitate and modernize the Tazara railway. Built by China in the 1970s, the strategic line links Zambia to Tanzania and runs to the port of ...

China Signs Deal to Upgrade Iconic African Rail Line

China, Zambia, and Tanzania signed a $1.4 billion deal to upgrade the TAZARA rail line between the two countries. The line is an icon of Africa-China cooperation, with its first iteration supported by Mao Zedong in the 1970s. The ...

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CGSP Take: How Does the Venezuela Crisis Affect China’s Relationship with the Global South?

By Cobus van Staden, CGSP Head of Research,
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Chinese Company Leads Africa’s First Cross-Border Standard Gauge Railway Expansion

China Railway Group Limited (CREC) is heading the construction of a new transfrontier rail line between Tanzania and Burundi. Construction of the Uvinza–Musongati line was officially inaugurated during a ceremony on Saturday. The 1,435-kilometer electrified line will provide landlocked Burundi ...

Kenya or Tanzania? Chinese Investors in Africa Face a Clear Choice

For Chinese entrepreneurs eyeing East Africa, one question looms large: Tanzania or Kenya? Longtime Africa WeChat commentator Xiao Nie (小聂说事儿), who spent 3 years in Tanzania and 11 years in Kenya, cuts through the debate with a vivid analogy: “Tanzania is East Africa’s factory floor; Kenya ...

Is It Just Because They’re Cheap? Why Chinese Products Dominate the African Market

The popular East Africa-based Chinese online commentator Xiao Nie “小聂说事儿,” who chronicles daily life of Chinese immigrants on the continent, recently published an article addressing common biases about Africa’s consumer market. The piece was written in response to a flood of comments on a previous ...

Zambia Banks on China-Backed Rail Upgrade to Boost Mining Exports

Two great railroads nearly bisect the southern central belt of Africa, stretching from the Atlantic and Indian oceans respectively, poised to shuttle key metals from the mineral-rich center of the continent to markets abroad. For Zambia, the second-largest copper exporter in Africa, these railways represent the future ...

Cars May be Last to Electrify in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania

More than three-quarters of all EVs in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania combined are two and three-wheelers, meaning there are less than five thousand four-wheelers across the three countries. While e-bikes, tricycles, and buses have set the pace in terms of ease ...

Tanzanian Ruling Party Leader Meets with Chinese Envoy, Underscoring Beijing’s Party-to-Party Ties

The Vice Chairman of Tanzania's ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi, Stephen Wasira, paid a courtesy call to the Chinese embassy on Sunday for talks with Beijing's envoy to Dar es Salaam Chen Mingjian. The Chinese embassy did not release specific details of their discussions, ...

Railroads and Rivalries in Southern Africa

The U.S. and China plan to spend billions of dollars refurbishing key railway lines in southern Africa that link critical resource mining hubs in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo with ports on both sides of the continent.
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