By Yu-Shan Wu, Research Associate at the Africa-China Reporting Project and doctoral candidate (International Relations) at the University of Pretoria; and Dr Cobus van Staden, Senior Researcher: China Africa at the South African Institute of International Affairs. First published on the Mail &… Continue Reading
By Yu-Shan Wu, Research Associate at the Africa-China Reporting Project. Originally published on Africa Portal. This year marks two decades of official diplomatic ties between China and South Africa. Links were forged in 1998 when a newly democratic South Africa under… Continue Reading
By Cameroon journalist Amindeh Blaise Atabong, first published on Journal du Cameroun.com. Cameroon is determined to become a middle-income country by 2035. To achieve this lofty vision, it has elaborated a Growth and Employment Strategy Paper (GESP) with the development… Continue Reading
By South African journalist Claire van den Heever, first published on African Arguments. Meet some of the growing group of Africans lining up to learn Chinese. Soon after being named Entrepreneur of the Year in Zimbabwe’s equivalent of “Dragon’s Den”,… Continue Reading
By Liberia journalist Fredrick P.W. Gaye, first published on Inprofiledaily. Prior to the civil war in 1990, agriculture was the main source of livelihood for the great majority of Liberians. Except on plantations operated by foreign concessionaires and wealthy Liberians,… Continue Reading
By Ugandan Journalist Edward Ssekika, first published on The Observer. Foxtail millet yields up to two tonnes per acre, is drought tolerant and matures in only 75 days. “I used to grow our local [finger] millet. But this Chinese one… Continue Reading
By Kenyan journalist Gitonga Njeru, first published on Africa Science News. Kenya and China have forged a partnership in restricting the illegal trade of rare vipers. The vipers are illegally trafficked and sold in China to cartels and criminals. The Kenya-China… Continue Reading
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