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How Will China Respond to the Coup in Sudan?

A Sudanese protester draped with the national flag flashes the victory sign next to burning tyres during a demonstration in the capital Khartoum, on October 25, 2021, to denounce overnight detentions by the army of members of Sudan's government. AFP
The pre-dawn military coup in Sudan on Monday presents the latest challenge for China on how to respond to the toppling of governments in Africa where it has sizable economic and strategic interests. ...
by Eric Olander

One Kenyan Entrepreneur’s Cautionary Tale About Replacing Chinese Imports With a Locally-made Alternative

Kenyan entrepreneur Anthony Muthungu. Image via Capital News.
Kenya’s gaping trade imbalance with China is typical of many African countries that import significantly more than they export to the Chinese market. This has prompted calls going back years for Africans to ...
by Eric Olander

Uganda’s Parliament Considering New Law to Bolster Local Construction Companies Against Chinese Competition

The Ugandan parliament is considering a bill proposed by infrastructure minister Katumba Wamala that would provide sanctuary to local construction companies when bidding for smaller road contracts. Although China was not ...
by Eric Olander

Chinese Contractors Almost Finished With Upgrade and Expansion of Uganda’s Main International Airport

Five years after the state-owned China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) began work on a $200 million upgrade and expansion of Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport, project managers say the project is 75% complete. When ...
by Eric Olander

Who Has Distributed More Vaccines Abroad, China or the U.S.? Well, It Depends on What You’re Counting

Together, the Chinese-made Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines account for almost half of the 7.3 billion COVID-19 vaccines that have been delivered to date around the world, especially to developing regions in ...
by Eric Olander

Large Shipment of Chinese Vaccines Arrive in Ethiopia at a Crucial Time for Beijing’s Ties With Addis Ababa

Handover ceremony at Addis Ababa's international airport of a new batch of donated vaccines from China. Image via Xinhua.
China’s ambassador to Ethiopia, Zhao Zhiyuan handed over a donation of 800,000 doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine on Sunday to Health Minister Lia Tadesse at a ceremony at the international airport ...
by Eric Olander

Huawei’s Former Premium Smartphone Brand Honor Hopes to Make a Comeback in Africa

Huawei’s former premium smartphone brand Honor (now owned by the Shenzhen city government) plans to make a big push in South Africa next year with the opening of three retail stores and distribution ...
by Eric Olander

Nigerian Journalist Wins West African Reporting Prize For Coverage of Illegal Chinese Mining

Nigerian journalist Chinedu Asadu won the West Africa Media Excellence Conference Award on Friday for his daring undercover report on illegal Chinese mining in the Federal Capital Territory near Abuja. Asadu, then ...
by Eric Olander

We Now Know More About Zambia’s Debt… And It’s Not Good

Newly-elected Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema. MANDEL NGAN / AFP
The Zambian government owes creditors close to $27 billion, according to new data released by the Finance Ministry on Wednesday. The majority of those debts, $16.86 billion, are owed to ...
by Eric Olander

Ghana Points to Difficulties Ahead For African Governments’ Access to Capital

The premiums that investors are charging Ghana to buy its debt have surged six-fold to the highest levels since the beginning of the pandemic, making it a lot more expensive for the country ...
by Eric Olander

China’s African Union Ambassador Previews Some of the Themes That Will be Raised at the Upcoming FOCAC Summit

China’s mission to the African Union hosted an online forum on Wednesday where Ambassador Li Yuxi previewed some of the themes, albeit not in any great detail, that will be raised at the ...
by Eric Olander

Leading China-Africa Experts Preview the Key Themes That Will Likely Dominate This Year’s FOCAC Summit

The eighth iteration of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Senegal reflects the broadening of the relationship to include economic, cultural, security, technological, and health cooperation at a time when Africa becomes more ...
by LSE IDEAS

It’s Back to Business For Chinese Contractors in the DR Congo

Governor Gentiny Ngobila hosted a ceremony in City Hall to mark the completion of the feasibility studies to refurbish a railway line through the capital.
Municipal authorities in the Congolese capital Kinshasa announced that Chinese construction major Sinohydro will be among the lead contractors to refurbish a 75-kilometer section of the city’s decrepit rail line. Governor Gentiny Ngobila hosted ...
by Eric Olander

Analysis from Cobus van Staden

The G20 Summit and the Half-Life of a Joke

When it was announced in 2023 that the African Union would become a full member of the G20, I darkly joked on a podcast that the AU’s entry into the body could very well mark the moment the G20 lost its status as one of the most important global coordination forums. Mark my words, I said, soon The Economist will be like “Uhhh, the G20 is OVER – it’s the ...

China Hawk Peter Pham is America’s Most Visible Spokesman on Africa And He Doesn’t Even Work For the Government

TWEET TRANSLATION: Prime Minister Sama Lukonde Kyenge received a delegation from the mobile telephone company Africell wishing to extend its network in the DRC
There are few figures in Washington’s Africa policy circles who are as outspoken as Peter Pham, the Trump administration’s former special envoy to the Great Lakes region and, for a ...
by Eric Olander

Energy Think Tank Head Proposes 3 Ways China Can Help to Develop Africa’s Next Generation Power Market

The second Belt and Road Ministerial Energy Conference that was held in Beijing October 2021
Representatives from eight African countries met with leaders from China’s oil and gas industry along with prominent think tank analysts to discuss China-Africa energy cooperation issues in a sideline conference to the Second ...
by Eric Olander

Rwanda’s Ambassador is Solidly in China’s Corner

James Kimonyo, Rwanda's ambassador to China. Image via Global Times.
There’s often a huge discrepancy between the complex discourse about China that takes place in most African countries and the unabashedly enthusiastic embrace of China and the Communist Party that’s expressed by a ...
by Eric Olander

African Iron Ore Exporters Keep a Wary Eye on China’s Falling Steel Output

File image of the Pilabra iron ore mine in Western Australia.
Iron ore prices are holding steady… for now… but investors are becoming increasingly worried about the impact that the real estate crisis and China’s slowing economy overall may have on-demand later in the ...
by Eric Olander

It Looks Like the U.S. and Europe Are Now More Worried About China’s Growing Influence in LatAm Than Africa

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands before the 11th BRICS Summit at the Itamaraty palace on November 14, 2019 in Brasilia, Brazil. Pavel Golovkin / POOL / AFP
The Daily Mail’s sensationalist headline today (“China’s take-over in America’s back yard“) speaks to the mounting concern in U.S. and European capitals about China’s growing presence in Latin America ...
by Eric Olander

New Nigerian Chinese-Built Railways Generating Enough Revenue to Pay Off the Loans, Says Transport Minister

The Chinese-financed and built Lagos to Ibadan standard gauge railway in Nigeria.
Nigeria’s new Chinese-financed Standard Gauge Railways are already generating enough revenue to repay the loans needed to build them, said Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi. Passenger usage of the Lagos to ...
by Eric Olander

Chinese Vaccine Shipments to Africa Slow But More Deliveries Going to Sub-Saharan Countries

China shipped just a million doses of COVID vaccines last week to countries in Africa, according to the latest data from Bridge Consulting’s Vaccine Tracker Report, a sizable drop from ...
by Eric Olander

Belt and Road Energy Conference Opens in Qingdao, Ethiopia’s Ambassador to China Among First Day Speakers

Ethiopia's ambassador to China Teshome Toga speaking on the opening day of the Belt and Road Energy Partnership conference in Qingdao. Image via @TToga9.
Representatives from 32 countries attended the opening day of the Belt and Road Energy Partnership conference in the northern port city of Qingdao on Monday. Ethiopia’s ambassador to China Teshome ...
by Eric Olander

How the Biden Administration’s New Africa Policy is Perceived in China

Chinese policymakers and analysts have been closely studying U.S. foreign policy in Africa to determine how much is actually new and what is a holdover from previous administrations, namely during the Trump period. ...
by Eric Olander

A Chinese Mining Company in the DRC Pushes Back Against “Unverified Media Reports” That It Polluted the Environment

File image of a Xiangjiang mining facility in Tshopo province in the DR Congo.
The Chinese-owned Xiangjiang Mining Company is attempting to reverse last August’s decision by DR Congo Deputy Prime Minister Ève Bazaïba to revoke the firm’s two mining licenses in central Tshopo ...
by Eric Olander

First-Ever African Students Forum Convenes In Beijing

Students from 36 different African countries gathered in Beijing on Sunday to take part in the first-ever African students’ forum organized by the China-Africa Institute with the support of the Chinese Academy of ...
by Eric Olander

Sicomines Wanted a Dialogue With Congolese Labor Advocates… And They Sure Got an Earful

The management at the embattled Sino-Congolese mining company Sicomines reached out to local labor activists for a dialogue about the working conditions at the Chinese-run joint venture.  They got an earful last week, ...
by Eric Olander

China’s Largest EV Battery Manufacturer Wants to Move Beyond Cobalt

Image via CATL.
While Chinese companies are investing billions of dollars to build new cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of a broader effort to control the global electric vehicle battery market, ...
by Eric Olander

Biden Met With an African Leader Last Week, Didn’t Mention China by Name

Visiting Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in the oval office. Image via @POTUS.
U.S. President Joe Biden appears to be taking the advice of advisors and scholars, who’ve told him repeatedly over the past eight months to avoid talking about China when discussing Africa.  During a ...
by Eric Olander

China Could Factor Into the U.S. Debate Over Duty-Free Trade with Ethiopia

A lively debate is underway in the United States now over whether Trade Representative Katherine Tai should remove Ethiopia’s duty-free access to the U.S. market as part of the African Growth and Opportunity ...
by Eric Olander

Beijing Responds to Media Reports that the U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe is Paying $1,000 For Journalists to Write Anti-China Stories

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian responded last week to unsubstantiated news reports that the U.S. embassy in Zimbabwe hired an agency to train local journalists to write stories critical of China. Zhao ...
by Eric Olander
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