Jack Ma, co-founder of Alibaba, Chinese e-commerce company, led a team of investors from his country to Nigeria on Thursday. Speaking when he met with Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the presidential villa in Abuja, Ma said the essence of the visit is to understand...

Homepage > News Font size: BRASILIA, Nov. 14 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping said here on Thursday that China is ready to work with South Africa to maintain and develop the China-South Africa comprehensive strategic partnership. Xi made the remarks during his...

Africa Data Centres and China Telecom extend partnership Africa Data Centres has announced it has extended its partnership with China Telecom Global through the deployment of a China Telecom POP at Africa Data Centres’ data centre in South Africa. The company says...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has a relatively light commercial footprint in Africa, but its moves to encourage digital entrepreneurship on the continent may hint at future expansion, as David Thomas reports. Twenty years after founding the world’s largest...

Africa focused payment startup PalmPay has launched in Nigeria after raising a $40 million seed-round led by Chinese mobile-phone maker Transsion . The investment came via Transsion’s Tecno subsidiary, with participation from China’s NetEase and Taiwanese wireless...

Picture: UNSPLASH IMAGES. In this episode of the African Tech Roundup podcast, Andile Masuku and The Subtext’s Osarumen Osamuyi are joined by Iginio Gagliardone for a candid introductory chat about the budding Africa-China/China-Africa tech collaboration dynamic....

French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire (L) shakes hand with Tony Elumelu, United Bank for Africa president and founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation, before the opening session of the conference "Invest for Growth in Africa" , October 30, 2019 The time to...

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and state-controlled utility EDF Chief Executive Jean-Bernard Levy arrive for a news conference about EDF's long-delayed Flamanville nuclear plant, at the Bercy Finance Ministry in Paris, France, October 28, 2019. French...

The relationship between China and Africa must be “sincere and transparent,” Angola’s Trade Minister Joffre Van-Dúnem Júnior said on Monday in the Chinese city of Jinhua, in Zhejiang province. The minister was speaking at the opening of the “Week of Cultural Exchange...

Xinhua, China's state news agency, reported that the satellite was launched on Sunday from the northern Chinese province of Shanxi [Reuters] Sudan's first-ever satellite to carry out research in military, economic and space technology has been launched by China, the...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - African countries will need to quadruple their rate of investment in their power sectors for the next two decades to bring reliable electricity to all Africans, an International Energy Agency (IEA) study published on Friday said. If African...

Pakistan has sold 16 JF-17 fighters, built with China's help, to Myanmar and three to Nigeria. © Getty Images ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan, known as a major importer of weapons from China and the United States, is poised to significantly expand its arms exports, with an...

Training session on the DJI Agras MG1-S spray drone against malaria, in Tanzania. Tanzania Flying Labs When the specially-designed DJI Agras MG1-S drone rose over a rice field in Cheju, Tanzania and started to deploy its payload, it was the culmination of years of...