China’s Small but Important Role in Ghana’s Debt Crisis
China’s share of Ghana’s $55 billion public debt is quite small at just $1.7 billion or 3% of the total, but Beijing nonetheless plays a...
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CAR Attack Sparks New Concerns About Safety of Chinese People in Africa
One week after a brutal attack on a Chinese mining site in the Central African Republic (CAR) that killed nine people and injured two others...
Reporting Tips for African Journalists Covering China
Reporting on China is difficult even for the most experienced journalist who’s spent years living there and speaks the language. So, it’s not surprising that...
Africa’s Role in China’s Evolving Geopolitical Priorities
It’s been a momentous past two weeks for Chinese foreign policy with major a breakthrough in the Sri Lanka debt impasse and the landmark announcement...
China vs. the Multilateral Development Banks
There was a major breakthrough this week in China’s months-long standoff with the World Bank, IMF, and other multilateral creditors when Beijing agreed to fully...
WEEK IN REVIEW: China-IMF Debt Standoff | France’s “New” Africa Strategy | SA Naval Exercises
The G20 finance ministers meeting in India came and went without any progress on the debt standoff between China and the IMF/World Bank over who...
WEEK IN REVIEW: South Africa: Naval Drills | Ghana: Debt Crisis | DRC: Mining Contracts
Controversial joint naval exercises among South Africa, Russia, and China got underway this week off the coast of KwaZulu-Natal, prompting a fierce backlash from critics...
What the New Port of Lekki in Nigeria Tells Us About the Future of Chinese Infrastructure Finance in Africa
China is no longer in the game of providing African countries with enormous loans to finance large-scale infrastructure projects. In fact, BRI financing last year...
It’s Getting Tougher for African Students to Get a PhD in China
Thousands of African students are back in class again in China following a three-year absence due to the pandemic and Beijing’s strict COVID Zero travel...