It is against this backdrop that Black Panther opened in China this weekend. As a Chinese-American who has already seen — and fallen in love with — the film, I was anxious and a little curious as to how the...

It is against this backdrop that Black Panther opened in China this weekend. As a Chinese-American who has already seen — and fallen in love with — the film, I was anxious and a little curious as to how the...
Hodan Osman Abdi swiftly strings together a few phrases to describe herself: a woman, a black woman, a black African woman. She pauses for a second before completing the sentence: “I’m a black, African, Muslim woman who wears...
Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown has demanded an explanation from Eskom’s board for an agreement signed by acting CEO Sean Maritz to pay a R400m “sourcing fee” to an obscure company registered in the British Virgin Islands. The...
Drumpf’s remarks, like a godsend from Beijing’s perspective, will effectively push African countries closer to China’s side. Beijing has been actively embracing Africa and trying to include the continent in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — Chinese President...
There’s nothing covert about Roxy – a huge market in Abidjan selling counterfeit medicine, the scourge of Africa and the cause of around 100,000 deaths annually on the world’s poorest continent. Located in the bustling Adjame quarter of...
周一,一名前香港政府官员被联邦政府指控试图贿赂乍得总统和乌干达外长,以换取一家中国能源公司的采油权。他在纽约法院拒绝认罪。 该官员名叫何志平,他与塞内加尔前任外交国务部长谢赫·加迪奥(Cheikh Gadio)在11月被捕,被起诉洗钱以及违反《海外反腐败法》(Foreign Corrupt Practices Act)。 现年68岁的何志平曾在美国接受眼科医学教育,于2002至2007年间担任香港民政事务局局长。离任后,他成为香港研究机构中华能源基金会(China Energy Fund Committee)的秘书长,这家机构得到了中国华信能源有限公司(CEFC China Energy Company)的资金支持。华信是一家总部位于上海的大型能源企业,背后有中国共产党的支持。 美国检察官表示,何志平参与了两起行贿案件。其中一起涉及向乍得总统伊德里斯·德比(Idriss Déby)行贿200万美元,“以确保得到商业优势”来帮助华信回避国际竞争,获得在该国的采油权。检方称,加迪奥是那场交易的中间人,何志平从纽约电汇了40万美元给他作为酬金。 检方称,第二起案件涉及50万美金的贿赂,同样是从纽约通过电汇将钱转入了乌干达外交部长萨姆·库泰萨(Sam Kutesa)指定的一个银行账户。库泰萨还得到了礼物以及一份承诺,即华信可能会与他的家族控制的公司成立合资企业并分享利润。 加迪奥以及乌干达和乍得政府均否认了这些指控。NYTimes/
To me, the most interesting part about these connections is that they form a new kind of globalization, one that a lot of the world isn’t paying attention to, what one researcher described as a form of “globalization...
In April, Ghanaian artist Bright Tetteh Ackwerh published a cartoon on his Facebook page titled, “We Dey Beg,” or “We are begging,” in honor of a recent campaign against illegal gold mining supported by Chinese companies, which has polluted local rivers. In...
Amnesty said firms including Microsoft, Renault and Chinese tech group Huawei have taken “no action” into how the batteries used in their products could be linked to human rights abuses. The Financial Times reported on Wednesday that the...
The Namibian Chamber of Commerce and Industry has spoken out against the illegal establishment of Chinese trading shops in informal settlements, contrary to the Foreign Investment Act of 2010 that forbids foreign nationals from engaging in trade reserved...
It is against this backdrop that Black Panther opened in China this weekend. As a Chinese-American who has already seen — and fallen in love with — the film, I was anxious...
A study by Boston University academics shows that nearly one-third, or $6.8bn, of the $25.6bn that China’s state-owned development banks lent last year to energy projects worldwide went to African countries....