While the world debates 5G technologies, and the US takes aim at China’s telecoms giant Huawei, this remains a live topic across the continent, too. From internet blackouts in Ethiopia… to facial recognition software in South Africa… to the recent public embrace by...

116k 12 Reactions China has lessons worth learning, but governance without elections and choice of ruling party isn’t one of them. China’s government likes to describe its economic system as “socialism with Chinese characteristics”. Which sounds a bit like a euphemism...

December 6, 2019 (Ezega.com) -- An international conference on China and Africa Bilateral Cooperation was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The conference kicked off today at the Head Quarters of the African Union jointly organized by The African Union Commission...

China’s Premier Li Keqiang, right, meets Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, Sept. 1, 2018. African-American intellectual giant W.E.B Du Bois spent his last years in newly independent Ghana. Today tourists can visit...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has signed an agreement with Ethiopia to launch its electronic world trade platform (eWTP). It’s the second African country after Rwanda to sign up to the eWTP, an e-commerce initiative aimed at making it easier for small and...

November 2019 could mark when Nigeria (arguably) became Africa’s unofficial capital for fintech investment and digital finance startups. The month saw $360 million invested in Nigerian focused payment ventures. That is equivalent to roughly one-third of all the...

An employee packages goods at a warehouse of e-commerce platform Kilimall in Nairobi, capital of Kenya, November 1, 2019. Photo: Xinhua Looking at Africa from the perspective of most international media outlets, one gets the picture of a desperate continent. From...

Greg Reaume · CBC News · Posted: Nov 27, 2019 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: 9 hours ago Chinese President Xi Jinping has made an aggressive effort to expand China's influence around the world, including through the Belt and Road Initiative, his ambitious, global...

The Ethiopian government on Monday signed three agreements with Alibaba Group to join the Electronic World Trade Platform, an Alibaba-led initiative that aims to lower barriers to global trade for small and medium-sized enterprises through e-commerce. The eWTP hub ,...

Migrants in Guangzhou: Life in China's 'Little Africa' Most of the people who shop at the Yueyang Trading Mall in the Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou are dark-skinned. Clocks on the walls show the time in Cairo and South Africa. Inside the small shops, Chinese...

The Chinese government has released phase one of funding for a substantial road construction project in Ghana as part of a $2 billion infrastructure deal which gives Beijing access to the country’s reserves of bauxite — a crucial source of aluminum. The deal has drawn...

(Part four of a five-part BRICS Free Trade series) Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis Chinese President Xi Jinping has just returned from Brazil where he attended the annual meeting of the BRICS nations in Brasilia. With the Presidents and Prime Ministers from India,...