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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 ...

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 ...

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 the e-bikes, tricycles and buses have set the pace ...

Negotiating Chinese Infrastructure Deals: Lessons From Two African Countries

Africa is the only region in the world where access to electricity is actually shrinking. Prolonged drought across large swathes of the continent has severely impacted hydropower production, triggering large-scale electricity outages — most notably in Zambia.

Uganda Detains 21 People Protesting Sino-French Oil Project

Ugandan police arrested 21 environmentalists in the capital, Kampala, on Monday as they protested a controversial multi-billion-dollar oil development scheme, their lawyer said. The East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project (EACOP), headed by French oil giant TotalEnergies, involves drilling for oil ...

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China-Led Study Proposes Global Energy Network

A globally connected network of solar and wind energy could provide three times the global energy demand by 2050 at a lower cost than independent national power systems. This is the finding of a study led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in collaboration with researchers from the United States and Denmark.

The study focused on how areas with high solar and wind capacity (such as deserts) can be linked to ...

Empowering Africa: How Host States Can Influence Chinese-Supported Power Projects

By Naa Adjekai Adjei Over the past decade, Chinese investments have significantly bolstered Africa's infrastructure landscape. However, prevailing narratives have often emphasized China's influence, overshadowing the critical role of African host states in determining ...

Uganda Arrests Dozens of Students Over East Africa Oil Project Protest

Dozens of student activists were arrested on Friday as they tried to march to Uganda's parliament to deliver a petition against a controversial multi-billion-dollar oil development scheme, police and their lawyers said. The students were protesting a huge project headed by ...

Protesters Target Chinese Embassies Over E. Africa Oil Project

Climate change campaigners protested at Chinese embassies in 10 countries on Tuesday, calling on China not to finance the construction of TotalEnergies' controversial oil pipeline in East Africa. Activists said Chinese banks and insurers are financiers of "last resort" for TotalEnergies, ...

Environmental Activist ‘Detained’ in Uganda, NGOs Say

An environmental activist in Uganda opposed to a huge oil drilling project headed by French giant TotalEnergies has been detained by soldiers, two NGOs said Friday. Stephen Kwikiriza has not been heard from for three days, according to the International Federation ...

China-Africa Summit to Take Place September 3-8, According to Uganda Foreign Ministry

It appears Chinese ambassadors across Africa were given the go-ahead to notify their host governments that the upcoming Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit will take place from September 3rd to the 8th. The Uganda Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a ...

The Good News, Bad News About Uganda’s Trade With China

Chinese trade with Uganda has more than doubled over the past ten years from $600 million to $1.3 billion, according to Zhang Lizhong, China's ambassador to the East African country. While that is undoubtedly encouraging, the figures conceal a much deeper ...

African Development Bank Suspends Chinese Contractor Due to Fraud

The African Development Bank (AfDB) banned China Henan International Corporation Group (CHICO) from working on any bank-funded projects for one year following an investigation that found "fraudulent activity." The bank determined that CHICO failed to disclose that it hired ...
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