Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji (ed) (2008) China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective. 
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RSS FeedEA lawyers to sue China over Zimbabwe
2008-05-07
Lawyers from East Africa and the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) are seeking legal action against the Chinese government over arms supplies to Zimbabwe. The East African Law Society and the Law Society of the Southern Africa Development ...
Chinese merchants set up shop in Morocco
2008-05-09
An increasing number of Chinese-owned kissarias (stores) are springing up in Casablanca, Morocco’s economic centre. While some Moroccan merchants decry what they consider unfair price competition and poor merchandise quality, the government is workin...
Sudan: Chinese companies sign contract on heightening dam on Blue Nile
2008-04-30
Sudan has contracted two Chinese companies to raise the height of Sudan’s Roseires Dam. China’s involvement in this project is significant, given that the Roseires Dam supplies more than 70 percent of Sudan’s hydropower and that China has also been c...
China to seal $9bn DR Congo deal
2008-04-18
After decades of civil war, the Democratic Republic of Congo is about to sign an agreement with China who will provide $9 billion worth of investment in rebuilding infrastructure in exchange for the country’s natural resources, the largest deal of it...
Malawi: K40bn aid from China
2008-04-11
President Bingu wa Mutharika returned from his weeklong state visit to Mainland China and brought home a K40 billion aid package for Malawi. Mutharika briefed the press on his visit at the New State House in Lilongwe. Reading the President’s communiq...
Angola and China: A pragmatic partnership
2008-04-04
This paper takes a fresh look at the issue of Angola and China's partnership. The study is based upon fieldwork carried out in Angola in 2007 and 2008 and includes numerous interviews with Angolan officials. It describes a pragmatic bilateral partner...
Review of African Political Economy
Special Issue on China and Africa (2008-03-28)
Review of African Political Economy - http://www.roape.org/ - is a leading left journal on Africa examining: the politics of imperialism; development; agrarian, popular and democratic struggles; class, gender and social justice. The latest special issue of the journal , No.115, March 2008, focuses on China-Africa relations and includes editorials, articles and briefings dealing with the different dynamics of Sino-African relations. In this issue Marcus Power and Giles Mohan look at the 'New' Face of China-African Co-operation, and Rapahel Kaplinsky explores how the rise of China impacts Africa's industrialization. The table of contents of the forthcoming issue is available at the link below.
Zambia: from the World Bank to China and back
2008-03-20
African governments have often praised Chinese investment as the panacea for their infrastructure sectors. Zambia’s experience demonstrates that it is not, writes Peter Bosshard. A Chinese hydropower project on the Kafue River has brought up the whol...
China wants 40 pct of oil/gas imports from Africa
2008-03-21
China wants up to 40 percent of its oil and gas imports to come from Africa in the next 5-10 years, a Chinese industry official has said. "We wish to increase the imports, the oil and gas from Africa from 35 to 40 percent in the next five to 10 years...
China in Africa: Lending, policy space and governance
2008-03-14
China has had bad press regarding its involvement in sub-Saharan Africa. Its lack of aid conditionality – particularly in the field of human rights and environmental issues; its apparent disregard for transparency in the loan contraction processes an...
China/African trade up $74 billion
2008-02-15
The value of trade between China and Africa had increased by 24% to $74 billion between 1995 and 2007 according to figures released by the Trade Law Centre of Southern Africa (Tralac). A researcher at Tralac, Taku Fundira, says Chinese imports from A...
Kenya: China donates US$300,000
2008-02-07
Chinese government donated 300,000 US dollars humanitarian aid to Kenyan Red Cross Society on Monday. "A friend in need is a friend indeed," Chinese Ambassador to Kenya Zhang Ming said in the handover ceremony, adding the Chinese government and its p...
Southern Africa: China formally opens embassy in new ally Malawi
2008-02-07
China on Saturday formally opened a new embassy in Malawi, after the poor southern African nation announced last week it was switching its diplomatic allegiance from Taipei to Beijing. "We have officially established diplomatic relations to serve the...
West Africa: China signs to lend Gabon $83 mln for hydro dam
2008-02-07
China will lend Gabon 37.2 billion CFA francs on concessionary terms to part-fund a hydroelectric dam scheme, the central African country's presidency said in a statement published on Saturday. The "Grand Poubara" hydro scheme is linked to a $3 billi...
Africa: Sudan doubles crude exports to China in 2007
2008-02-01
Crude oil exports from Sudan to China more than doubled last year to top 200,000 barrels a day, with official data showing that China now takes 40 percent of the east African producer’s total output. Sudan exported 10.31 million tonnes to China in 20...
Africa: China donates US$500,000 humanitarian aid to Somalia
2008-02-01
The Chinese government has donated US$500,000 humanitarian aid to Somalia through the World Health Organization (WHO) in Nairobi. China and Somalia enjoy cordial relationship, and the friendship cherished by the two countries and peoples have been de...
Lesotho: Anti-Chinese sentiment flares
2008-01-25
For 14 years, Mathabo Mabekhla was one of Lesotho's most successful entrepreneurs. Her ladies' clothing boutique sold dresses, blouses and slacks imported from neighbouring South Africa, and boasted a client base that included cabinet ministers and t...
Africa: Malawi cuts ties with Taiwan
2008-01-18
Malawi has cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan after 41 years and switched allegiance to China, which has become a major economic power in Africa. The decision, announced on Monday, reduced Taiwan's allies to just 23 countries, most of which are small an...
Global: EU to pursue partnership with China on Africa
2008-01-15
EU development commissioner Louis Michel has revealed that the European Commission wants to build a partnership between the EU and China on Africa. His comments come amid Europe's growing concern that China is exercising too much influence on the res...
More African students attending Chinese universities
2007-12-19
More African students are coming or planning to come to China for higher education because of the country's fast-growing economy and warmer ties with Africa. "China is becoming one of the strongest economies in the world. It will be important to know...
Africa: Only safe, quality anti-malaria drugs to be sold to Africa
2007-12-12
China has tightened the quality control on anti-malaria drugs sold to African countries with a newly-issued regulation and other efforts, according to the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA). According to the new regulation, China will only exp...
Kenya: Chinese bank gives Kenya $20 million for cheap housing
2007-12-12
China Development Bank will provide $20 million in development credit to build low-cost housing and improve education and health care in Kenya, the bank's top official in Africa has said. More than half the money will go towards construction of low- ...
Africa: Europe squeezed by China's scramble for Africa
2007-12-07
As Portugal prepares to host a bonding summit of African and European leaders, the frenetic construction in its ex-colony Angola bears testimony to China's growing influence on the resource-rich continent. In all weather and on every day of the week,...
EU told to change tack in Africa or lose to China
2007-11-30
The European Union must abandon paternalism in Africa and strongly invest in the commodity-rich continent or risk being overtaken by China's "easy money", the bloc's development chief warned on Friday. "Forget it, Africa is not Europe's private hunti...
Global: China and Zimbabwe: Is there a future?
2007-11-22
Zimbabwe and China have relations dating back to the southern African country’s 1970s liberation struggle when Beijing provided arms and training to the black nationalist movement fighting the white minority government of Ian Smith. The friendship wa...
Africa: Chinese influence in Africa: a Chinese perspective
2007-11-02
This report published by the European Network on Debt and Development examines China’s role as a donor in Africa. It explores Chinese views on such issues, including their response to concerns expressed about the increased cooperation with Africa. Th...
DRC: China ‘opening up’ DRC for minerals
2007-10-22
China has signed its largest single deal in Africa with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): a $5 billion loan to develop infrastructures, mining, bioenergy, forestry and agriculture. Infrastructure Minister Pierre Lumbi said the money will be spe...
Africa: China helps Africa where West failed - state bank official
2007-10-25
China is spreading prosperity in Africa where the West failed, a Chinese bank official has said, in a sharp rebuke to critics of his country's growing role in the world's poorest continent. Li Ruogu, president of China's state-owned Export-Import Ban...
DRC: IMF worried over China's $5 bln loan to Congo
2007-10-11
The International Monetary Fund has warned Congo to beware of the macroeconomic effects of a planned $5 billion loan from China to modernise the vast African country's decrepit infrastructure and mining industry. President Joseph Kabila's government ...
Africa: China's interest and activity in Africa's construction and infrastructure sectors
2007-09-26
This new research report conducted by the Centre for Chinese Studies evaluated the market entry models of Chinese construction firms in Angola, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Zambia. Particular attention was paid to the methods of engagement and the impa...
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