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Addis Ababa: New African Union conference center a lasting testimony of strong afro chinese relations
A 100 000 000 (one hundred million) Renminbi Yuan (USD14,645,576.89) grant agreement on economic and technical cooperation was signed today between the People's Republic...
Zimbabwe: Chinese company to develop satellite towns after prison complex deal
China Sonangol, a Chinese company, has been handed land in excess of 1 000 hectares in Zimbabwe to develop satellite towns around Harare at...
World Bank eyes India as Africa rail partner
The World Bank and New Delhi are in talks about financing the international expansion of Indian Railways, one of the largest and most profitable...
Ethiopia: Norway joins China in mega hydropower project
Norway is now the second country after China to financially support Ethiopia’s hydropower development after a loan request for the Eastern African country’s mega...
Angola: Chinese violence and murders, protest or criminality?
The spate of violence against Chinese nationals in Angola is fast becoming an issue of concern. A sense of neocolonialism amongst some Angolans is...
Wen Jiabao Meets with Egyptian President Mubarak
On November 7, 2009, visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo. Wen said President Mubarak is a well-known...
China buys Zimbabwe prison
Zimbabwe"s controversial relationship with China has taken an amusing
turn after the communist country bought Harare Central prison complex
which houses more than 2000 families and...
China-Africa: China to give Africa $10bn
China has pledged to give Africa $10bn in concessional loans over the next three years, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said at a summit...
U.S. dollars and a world of proxy cocaine users!
It simply beats my imagination as to how every single U.S. citizen has already handled cocaine or risks handling it in the very near...
Somalia-China: “Pirates are expanding their operations”
The hijacking of a Chinese ship carrying coal across the Indian Ocean shows that Somali pirates are expanding their reach beyond the Gulf of...
Guinea: Mixed feelings over Chinese take over of Guinea’s Bauxite mines
China has agreed to take over all mining rights to Guinea’s reserves of bauxite, and construct ports, railway lines, power plants, low-cost housing and...
Rwanda: President Kagame praises China, criticizes the West
Rwanda President Paul Kagame, has praised China’s investment in African companies and infrastructure.
However, The President criticized the West for mostly exploiting African resources.
“I wish...
Africa: Rwanda President defends China, scorns western relations with Africa
Mr. Paul Kagame has backed China's engagement in Africa, claiming the Asian country offers what African nations need; investments and money. This appraisal of...
Tanzanian President doesn’t believe China is “gobbling up” Africa
African leaders “have a duty to create the right climate for business” in Africa, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete said September 28 in Washington. Kikwete...
Nigeria: Will China’s oil firm be different in operations in the Niger Delta?
The spread of China in Africa is taking shape in Nigeria’s oil fields as contract books, and oil drilling licenses exchange hands in Nigeria’s...
Trade: Africa must play smart with Asia not just submit to partner strategies!
Africa’s success in avoiding the worst of the economic crisis that has swept the industrialized world has been due in large part to the...
Chinese – Algerians: The big tension
Chinese presence in Algeria has become the source of heated debates among Algerians as violent anti-Chinese clashes hit the Algerian capital. The Chinese, who...
Algeria: Xenophobia against Chinese on the rise in Africa
Algerian job seekers have blamed their country's widening unemployment scale on the increasing number of Chinese emigrants living in Algeria and working for meager...
China: CCTV launches an Arabic channel
The Chinese media have announced the launching of an Arabic channel on Chinese national television, China Central Television (CCTV). CCTV already broadcasts in English,...
Africa: Is China the new African Savior?
After many years of enduring the rigors, manipulation and exploitation of Western colonial powers, Africans are hoping that patronage, peace and progress may come...
Chinese Kidnapping in Bakassi: Nigerian and Cameroonian rebels deny involvement
Nigeria's Niger Delta Militants have denied any involvement in the kidnapping of five Chinese fishermen in the Bakassi Peninsula, an area ceded by Nigeria...
Needy Zimbabwe held hostage by Chinese loan over multi billion dollar resource
Zimbabwe and China have inked a controvesial US$5 billion deal that has mortgaged the country's platinum resources worth US$40 billion. China is set...
Japan and China in Botswana follow French example in Niger?
One hundred and eleven Chinese enterprises now own exploration licenses to dig up Botswana for Uranium and other raw materials. China, which is competing...
African academics call for the establishment of a strategy with China
African scholars Monday urged African States to draw a regional or continental strategy to define their relations with China, Africa online has reported. The...
Nobel Laureates to boycott South African conference if Dalai Lama is not granted visa
Opposition parties in South Africa have ganged up to condemn the government's decision not to issue a visa to Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai...
South Africa denies visa to Dalai Lama
The government of South Africa refused to issue a visa to the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan spiritual leader was to take part in a...
A new stadium for Portugese speakers at 2010 World Cup
China is set to build a massive $60 million soccer stadium in Mozambique in a bid to tap into the Soccer World Cup in...
Chinese navy thwarts Somali pirate attack against Italian vessel
The Chinese navy, Tuesday, thwarted a pirate attack against an Italian vessel, named Liberia, off the coast of Somalia, the Chine Nouvelle agency announced,...
Chinese smelters flee DR Congo without paying workers
More than 40 Chinese-run copper smelters are standing idle in the Democratic Republic of Congo after their owners fled the country without paying taxes...
China consolidates economic partnership with Africa
China is aiming to prove to the world that countries could invest in Africa, engage in transactions and do business without a bias to...