Expanding AI for surveillance Artificial intelligence technology is proliferating fast across the world and is being deployed in applications from speech recognition to deepfake videos and monitoring traffic congestion. It’s also increasingly being used to monitor and...

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,...

U.S. enforcement authorities are increasingly targeting corrupt practices among Chinese companies in Africa. Four trends are worth watching, writes Chinwe Esimai in this opinion piece. Esimai is m anaging director and chief anti-bribery officer at Citigroup, where she...

Construction machinery maker Komatsu thinks the African market has plenty of room for growth, thanks to heavy demand for infrastructure. (Photo by Wataru Ito) TOKYO -- Japanese construction machinery maker Komatsu looks to build a plant in South Africa that will...

Bai Chunli (3rd R), president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Bulitia Godrick (2nd L), deputy vice-chancellor in charge of academic and student affairs at Maasai Mara University (MMU), attend an unveiling ceremony of the MMU-CAS Joint Research. [(Xinhua]...

A truck travels to a depth of 516 metres below the surface to collect ore at the Chibuluma copper mine in the Zambian copperbelt region, January 17, 2015. REUTERS/Rogan Ward/ In the race for high-tech resources, Chinese miners outplay their Western rivals Africa’s...

Mukula logs awaiting transportation at a lumberyard in Katanga province in the DRC. A high-level government scandal in Gabon earlier this year has turned out to be the perfect illustration for just how serious the business of rosewood furniture is across Africa. Since...

Science fiction can serve as an imaginative production of political theory. In 2007 the then President of China, Hu Jintao, delivered a speech to South Africans acknowledging the benefits of a strategic partnership. He also stressed that the connection is not merely...

Gear Huawei may delay 5G Mate 30 smartphone sales overseas because of US trade ban The ban prevents Huawei from selling its new high-end smartphone with popular Google mobile services Click here to view original web page at...

Native to equatorial Africa, kevazingo is also called bubinga , bovenga , amazique , and African rosewood. Sarah Monaghan When Marc Ona Essangui was a baby, he was placed under the spiraling canopy of a kevazingo tree. His mother and father said a prayer over their...

Gear Huawei may delay 5G Mate 30 smartphone sales overseas because of US trade ban The ban prevents Huawei from selling its new high-end smartphone with popular Google mobile services Click here to view original web page at...

Diplomacy Both countries are competing for influence and benefits on the continent where China is a trade juggernaut But they want not only raw materials and markets ‘but also respect and love’, according to an analyst A Kenya Railways goods train pulls shipping...

Yvonne Renee Davis is a foreign policy contributor for The Daily Signal. During the George W. Bush administration, she served as a contractor for the State Department and a speaker for the Speaker's Bureau. China is well-known to be America’s largest trading...