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A lively discussion on China's engagement across Africa hosted by veteran journalist Eric Olander in Asia and Dr. Cobus van Staden in Johannesburg.
The tiny landlocked kingdom of eSwatini, formerly known as Swaziland, is now the last country in Africa to maintain diplomatic relations wit...
The Chinese economy is undergoing unprecedented economic disruption due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and African countries are largely unp...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi kicked off his annual tour of Africa in Cairo this week where he met with senior Egyptian leaders to discus...
This week Eric & Cobus discuss what's ahead in 2020 for China-Africa relations. Each shares their views on three key trends to watch out for...
The recent kidnapping of three Chinese miners in the southwestern Nigerian state of Osun highlights the vulnerability that confronts the Chi...
Chinese ambassadors in Africa rarely grant one-on-one interviews with international journalists. But that's starting to change now, particul...
News coverage and social media commentary about the recent deal signed between the Ghanian government and the Chinese state-owned constructi...
It's counterintuitive to a lot of people, but Chinese and African agriculture has a lot more in common with one another than many first expe...
Chinese investors have been wary of the African market. For a long time, China's cash-rich venture capital, private equity, and corporate in...
Ghana is moving forward with an environmentally-risky resources-for-infrastructure deal with the Chinese state-owned construction conglomera...
Persistent Chinese demand for donkey hides is now pushing the animal's population in many countries, including a number in Africa, to the br...
African countries are not traditionally known for having strong space programs but now as the cost of launching satellites into orbit falls,...
Ethiopia stands out from other African countries for its ability to attract Chinese companies to open factories there. Through a combination...
At first glance, it would seem that the Trump administration's decision to revoke Cameroon's free-trade privileges would be counterproductiv...
It wasn't that long ago when France was by far the dominant foreign actor in West Africa. "Francafrique's" once ubiquitous power allowed it...
Last week's Russia-Africa Summit in the Black Sea city of Sochi marked Moscow's formal re-entry into the African diplomatic arena. The Russi...
The pace of Chinese manufacturing going offshore has picked up significantly in the past year, spurred on by U.S. sanctions and the worsenin...
Nigerian Dickson Agbaji is not famous. He's not a singer, a movie star or a popular online celebrity. So, according to the conventional defi...
When Shenzhen-based Transsion Holdings IPO'd last month no one predicted that it would surge a stunning 64% on its opening day of trading in...
The presence of Chinese workers who are helping to build the billions of dollars of infrastructure across Africa is one of the most contenti...
Christian missionaries in Kenya are finding a new source of converts among the immigrant Chinese population that came to the country to buil...
For most countries, aid and investment are two entirely different things. Not with the Chinese, though, where until recently the country's a...
China's critics, largely in the U.S., often hold up the Sri Lankan port in Hambantota as the cautionary tale of what purportedly can happen...
Dean Diabate first came to China in 2008, a very long time ago in the world of Chinese eCommerce. Back then, people didn't buy much online o...
China's approach to lending money to developing countries is radically different from that of traditional donors in the U.S., Europe, and Ja...
Aggrey Mutambo is the Senior Diplomatic Writer for the Daily Nation newspaper in Kenya, one of the country's leading dailies. He joins Eric...
Welcome to the first edition of China-Africa Q&A, a new podcast series that will feature interviews with key stakeholders in the China-Afric...
Fyjo Molly uses an unusual way to phoneticize her English YouTube handle name. The Chinese characters for Africa, 非洲, are typically spelled...
In this bonus episode, Eric & Cobus speak with Judd Devermont, Director of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International...
Journalists Anthony Langat from Kenya, Qian Sun from China and Jacob Kushner from the United States, join Eric & Cobus to discuss their rece...
54 countries and international organizations will convene at the end of August in Yokohama for the seventh Tokyo International Conference on...
South Africa's state-owned power utility Eskom is in dire straits. The electric power company now has more than $30 billion of debt and its...
Chinese diplomatic missions in Africa have long had a reputation for being inaccessible, even unapproachable. Ambassadors often shied away f...
In this special edition of the China in Africa podcast, Eric & Cobus join Judd Devermont , Africa Director at the Center for Strategic and I...
For many of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese who live and work in Africa, life is often is not easy. Low pay, long hours and extended as...
Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Aubrey Hurby joins Eric and Cobus to discuss her new report on how the United States can catch up, or "challe...
In this episode of the China in Africa Podcast, Kofi Agbogah of the Ghanian coastal advocacy group Hen Mpoano join Eric & Cobus to discuss t...
Africa's commodity-dependent economies are extremely vulnerable to the current uncertainties roiling global markets, specifically the height...
Africa is urbanizing faster than any region in the world. Today, an estimated 472 million Africans live in cities and that number is expecte...
Author and Hudson Institute senior research fellow Bruno Maçães joins Eric and Cobus to discuss the key drivers of China's hugely ambitious...
Kenya's National Environmental Tribunal ruled this week that the government and its industry-allies failed to submit a proper environmental...
Blessed with generous government-backed loans and low-cost, high-quality equipment, Chinese technology companies have transformed African te...
Johns Hopkins University professor and director of the China-Africa Research Initiative in Washington, D.C., Deborah Brautigam, joins Eric &...
Representatives from 53 African countries are expected to attend the inaugural China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo that will take place in...
At first glance, China's engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) looks a lot like what it's doing in Africa. Just as China surpa...
[EDITOR'S NOTE: This episode was recorded before the United States government announced that it would blacklist Huawei and blocked the compa...
It's well documented that a lot of people in Ghana and elsewhere in Africa resent the growing Chinese migrant presence, both in terms of the...
China's critics, led largely by the United States, are determined to warn developing countries about the risks of borrowing too much money f...
In the U.S. and many parts of Europe, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is often seen as "Trojan Horse" where Beijing uses the lure of...
37 foreign heads of state came to Beijing this week to take part in the second Belt and Road summit hosted by Chinese president Xi Jinping....