The China in Africa Podcast

Nigerian Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi acknowledged this week that he will no longer rely on China to fund two major railways and will have now...

It’s been a frenetic start of the year in Chinese diplomacy in the Middle East. Right after he returned from a five-nation tour of Indian...

China-Africa trade smashed a new record in 2021 and surpassed $250 billion. This was a dramatic increase over the $187 billion that the two sides...

China’s role in the landmark Congo-Hold Up corruption scandal was relatively small compared to those of other actors that were found to have funneled millions...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is back in Beijing after wrapping up the customary first overseas trip of the year that always begins in Africa...

There was a flurry of Chinese diplomatic activity in Africa this week with Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s first overseas trip of the year who went...

19 media outlets together with five NGOs in the U.S. and Europe pored through 3.5 million leaked documents from a Gabonese bank to produce Congo...

With the end of the year fast approaching and time running out to get everything into the last remaining shows of the season, we’re bringing...

For much of the past two decades, China was among the largest sources of African infrastructure financing. But that is no longer the case. In...

The ongoing supply chain disruptions are having a profound impact on the types of goods that consumers in Africa and other Global South countries can...

The eighth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation conference wrapped up this week in Senegal. The event itself generated a lot of news but it was far...

While China has dramatically curtailed its bilateral development financing in Africa and other regions around the world, Beijing is increasing its engagement in multilateral and...

Trade issues are widely expected to top the agenda at next week’s Forum on China-Africa Cooperation ministerial conference in Dakar. African countries will be looking...

This year’s Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) conference will take place amid considerable uncertainty in the global economy and profound economic changes underway in China...

In these contentious times, China is often accused of exporting its statist economic model to Africa and other developing regions as part of a broader...

Technology is expected to be one of the main pillars of discussion at the upcoming Forum on China-Africa Cooperation conference that will take place in...

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In the run-up to Forum on China-Africa Cooperation conference that will take place later this month in Dakar, CAP is speaking with a wide spectrum...

This week Eric & Cobus discuss the Chinese response to the military coup in Sudan and how it differs from Beijing’s reaction to September’s coup...

China-Africa trade figures for the first eight months of the year are in and they look solid. So good, in fact, that the two sides...

The triennial Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit is just weeks away now and speculation is now starting to build as to what will be...

Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is the showcase in Africa for China’s debt-led infrastructure development drive. While critics accuse China of saddling Nairobi with unsustainable...

Zambia owes at least 18 Chinese creditors $6.6 billion, nearly twice as much as previously stated, according to a new report published by the China-Africa...

If you’re confused about China’s stance on the use of coal, well, you’re definitely not alone. This week, China went on a global coal buying...

While the Ghanaian government took decisive action earlier this year to crack down on illegal mining known as Galamsey where Chinese illegal mining interests have...