Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh meets with Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Djibouti, capital of Djibouti on Thursday. Photo: Xinhua/Xie Han "Africa first" embodies 30 years of diplomatic tradition for the Chinese foreign minister to...

Lusaka, Zambia Tom Cockrem | Getty Images Zambia is already restructuring, renegotiating or refinancing its extensive Chinese project finance debt, and Chinese companies are playing hardball, according to new research. Southern Africa’s third-largest economy is under...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa visits the headquarters of Alibaba Group with the company's co-founder and executive chairman Jack Ma, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China September 5, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer The barriers that slow down entrepreneurship in...

China denies that its policies put African nations in “debt traps” that will collapse like a “house of cards,” a comment made last month by Adam Boehler , head of the United States International Development Finance Corporation. Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang...

A container ship of China Shipping Line sails through the Suez Canal as Egypt celebrates the 150th anniversary of the canal opening in Ismailia, Egypt November 17, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany For several years now, as debt levels in a number of African...

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa right, and Senegalese President Macky Sall, left, attend the Beijing Summit Of The Forum On China-Africa Cooperation - Joint Press Conference at the Great Hall of the People Tuesday,...

While China, Europe, and the United States have been intensifying their competition in Africa over the last decade, the next decade is likely to see other players making more prominent moves. Among them, India, Russia, and major actors in the Middle East are already...

It's midnight in a medieval palace in the oldest city in West Africa: Kano, Nigeria. A thousand years ago, this was one of the richest cities in the world, the terminus of the cross-Saharan trade that brought salt to exchange for slaves, gold and ivory. The palace has...

China has extended Mauritania a $87 million loan to be used for the construction of a fishing harbor expected to generate 800 permanent jobs and handle around 400,000 tons of merchandise yearly. Minister of Finance and Industry Cheikh El Kebir Moulaye Taher told...

The imminent signing of a “Phase 1” trade deal between China and the US on January 15 appears to herald the beginning of the end of a tense period in bilateral relations. While the signing is yet to be officially confirmed, markets have breathed a sigh of relief and,...

Kenya’s leather exporters are predicting a better year as the US and China move to end their three-year trade wars. A Chinese delegation is expected in Washington on January 13 for the signing of phase 1 of a trade treaty in what could end the tariff wars that have...

A bonito is reeled in, some 20km off the coast of Lamu island in south-eastern Kenya, 24 March 2018 (issued 27 March 2018). EPA-EFE/DAI KUROKAWA Less 15 Reactions China’s role in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing has a disproportionate impact on Africa....

APPROXIMATELY six months after Chinese-linked International Cement Group Limited's attempt to buy Ohorongo Cement's holding company was derailed, another Chinese company has surfaced seeking to buy the same company for N$1,5 billion in cash. Click here to view...

A technician works on the construction site of a new container terminal at the port of Abidjan on March 27, 2019. The modernization of Abidjan Port which started in 2012 are led by Chinese engineers and workers whose country finances up to 1,100 billion FCFA (1.67...

This article is a continuation of the series on three big powers’ (China, America and Russia’s) relations with Africa. The focus of this article is on China-Africa relations. There are two contending perspectives on China’s relations with Africa. One perspective views...