By Gabrielle Nina Mitch, first published on Congo Durable as Partenariat Congo-Chine : le barrage de Busanga attendu dans le Lualaba on 2 January 2018. Translated by Gerard Guedegbe. The people of the Democratic Republic of Congo experiences crippling shortfalls in energy supplies,… Continue Reading
By Gaspard Maheburwa, first published in Burundi Eco newspaper as Impact des investissements chinois dans le domaine agricole au Brunudi on 2 January 2018. Translated by Gerard Guedegbe. In the city of Gihanga in Bubanza province, about ten kilometers from… Continue Reading
By Beninese journalist Christophe Assogba, first published in La Dépeche newspaper (Cotonou, Benin) on 15 November 2017. Benin lost 4.5 to 5.7 million hectares of its forest cover between 1990 and 2010, according to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) data. China’s… Continue Reading
By Moroccan journalist Hasnae Belmekki. Translated from French by Gerard Guedegbe. Chinese traders’ migratory movement to Derb Omar in Morocco is a recent phenomenon. Specialised in wholesale and semi-wholesale goods directly imported from China, who are these small entrepreneurs, where… Continue Reading
By Kenyan journalist Njeri Kimani, first published on Khuluma Africa. “The first night I got electricity in my house I kept on blowing the bulb for it to go off, just like I was used to blowing my tin lamp”, laughs… Continue Reading
In a year marking 20 years of diplomatic ties between China and South Africa, UFRIEDA HO looks back on steps in the longer journey of Chinese South Africans at Wits University. Originally published in Wits Review Magazine, April 2018. The first… Continue Reading
(中文看下面) The Africa-China Reporting Project (the Project) at Wits Journalism is inviting all journalists to submit proposals for a series of Africa-China investigative journalism grants intended for larger and more expansive investigations. This series of grants will be supervised by… Continue Reading
By South African journalist Simon Allison, first published on Mail & Guardian. A rocky, steep-banked promenade outlines the port of Djibouti. Old men use it for their late-afternoon constitutionals and the odd beggar sleeps on its benches. The breeze is… Continue Reading
February 17 marks World Pangolin Day, a day to commemorate and bring awareness to the plight of the pangolin; the most trafficked animal in the world. The pangolin is being hunted and killed in vast numbers in Africa, where its scales… Continue Reading
By Zimbabwean journalist Sydney Kawadza, originally published in Business Weekly. Horrendous figures coming out of Zimbabwe indicate the loss of about 330 000 hectares of forests annually due to a variety of activities including agriculture, domestic use and veld fires,… Continue Reading