Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has been visiting four countries in Africa to prepare for the upcoming China-Africa Cooperation Forum later this year in Beijing, and to facilitate integrating African nations further into the fabric of the Belt...

Last week President Drumpf reportedly singled out Haiti, El Salvador and African nations as “shithole countries” whose people were not the kind of immigrants the United States wanted. At the time, I happened to be in Serekunda, Gambia’s...

South African Government reaches agreement on public interest issues on the potential acquisition of control of Chevron South Africa by Chinese company Sinopec; Company commits to invest R6 billion in South Africa; move hailed as part of deeper...

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s upcoming State visit to the People’s Republic of China will seek to upgrade economic ties with the Asian giant, building on an excellent political relationship. China has also expressed unease over Zimbabwe’s indigenisation policy championed by the...

France has the experience of unilateral imperialism in Africa, which sometimes had the worst consequences and today with New Silk Road being created, I think the partnership between France and China can avoid repeating this mistakes and especially choose...

China’s approach is more ambitious. In recent years, it has taken steps to accrue national power on a scale that no country has attempted since the Cold War, by increasing its investments in the types of assets that...

Although China has officially denied involvement in the recent coup, it has cultivated deep ties with Zimbabwe’s political leadership since the 1960s-70s Rhodesian Bush War. Mugabe’s ZANU, primarily led and soldiered by the Shona ethnic group, acquired weapons and funding...

What is China’s role in the downfall of Robert Mugabe? As Zimbabwe’s major investor and provider of development finance, China has considerable interests in the country’s stability. Yet it is highly unlikely that there was any official Chinese...

Chi Ping Patrick Ho allegedly paid a $500,000 (Shs1.8 billion) bribe to Sam Kahamba Kutesa, Uganda’s foreign minister so he could assist the Energy Company to obtain business advantages, including the potential acquisition of a Ugandan bank. The...

China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative represents by far the country’s most ambitious global project, connecting China, the world’s second-largest economy, with Africa, Central and Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East through transportation and trade infrastructure....