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China’s state-run news agency Xinhua pushed back against  a January 7th report in The Guardian (UK) newspaper  that claimed the Chinese-owned Jinding mining company is requiring 50 families in rural Zimbabwe to move so as to make way for a granite polishing plant. The Guardian report also said that “Zimbabwe’s government has been accused of turning a blind eye to complaints” about labor and environmental violations committed by Chinese companies. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (

A high-level delegation from the United States met with Democratic Republic of Congo President Félix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa on Friday, in what appears to be an effort to try and loosen China’s increasingly tight grip on the Congolese mining sector. The U.S. group was led by Deputy National Security Advisor Daleep Singh and the National Security Council’s Africa lead, Dana Banks. Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Kinshasa, Mike Hammer, also attended the meetings. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly

According to Chinese state media, the new Chinese-built and funded railway between China and Laos, which was launched two months ago, is a huge success already. Rail authorities in China’s southwestern Yunnan province report that in the short time that it’s been in operation, the railway’s transported more than a million passengers and half a million tons of cargo. The 1,035km railway launched on December 3rd and cost more than $6 billion to build.  (XINHUA) This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Year

Chinese telecommunications giant  Huawei held on to a respectable 25% share of the South African market last year  despite the fact that it no longer sells handsets with Google’s Android operating system. Huawei was nonetheless a distant second to Samsung, who dominates the SA market with 47.6% of mobile device sales. Apple came in third with just under 16%,  according to data analytics firm Statcounter . This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Already a subscriber? Log in

It is quite likely that at least one, and possibly two, customs officials at the Bole International airport in Addis Ababa are unemployed today, after a Chinese traveler recorded them trying to extract a fictitious “camera tax.” The Chinese traveler was resolute in refusing to pay what was clearly a forced bribe and then  posted a video of the encounter on his Weibo account with the caption  “We do not cause trouble, but we are not afraid of trouble.” This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149

There’s good news and bad news in Kenya’s latest trade figures, released by the National Bureau of Statistics.  The good news is that exports jumped 17% in the January-November period last year to $5.9 billion. Higher regional demand, particularly from Uganda, for Kenyan food and industrial output helped to boost the figures. The bad news, however, is the country’s trade deficit widened a lot in that same period from $12 billion to $16 billion, mostly due to a surge of imported industrial supplies, machinery, and transportation equipment from China.  (THE STAR) The international law enforcement agency Interpol seized thousands of ivory pieces, pangolin scales and other illicit wildlife products in an eight-week operation against Africa-Asia trafficking syndicates.  “Operation Golden Strike” involved 23 states including China and more than a dozen African countries. The agency said a number of suspects were arrested in the operation but did not specify how many or their country of orig

Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Informations, Communications Technology Joe Mucheru spent almost an hour on Spice FM’s national radio and television morning broadcast on Wednesday touting the accomplishments of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration in promoting transparency in government. Mucheru strenuously pushed back on the hosts’ assertions that more needs to be done to improve government accountability in the procurement process by showcasing the success of the new Public Procurement Portal at  tenders.go.ke , even going so far as to demonstrate live on air how every contract that the government signs for infrastructure and services are available online for the public to view. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed

President Yoweri Museveni wants to stop borrowing and would rather finance his government through increased trade and domestic economic activity, according to comments he made this week in an interview with Reuters. “Uganda can do much better without borrowing in my opinion. Especially borrowing for…budget support, balance of payments support,” Museveni said. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Already a subscriber? Log in Click Here to Learn More The post Ugand

The recent detections of the highly contagious Omicron variant  in several of China’s largest port cities  is prompting renewed concerns  among African traders of potentially painful supply chain disruptions . Although only a few people have been found to be infected with Omicron in Tianjin and Dalian, both major port cities, China’s strict adherence to its “ Zero COVID ” policy means that large swathes of these large northeastern trading hubs have been subject to forced partial closures or other disruptions. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe to

Chinese Ambassador Zhu Jing hosting business leaders to discuss the worsening security situation in the DR Congo. Image via the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The worsening security situation for Chinese nationals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo prompted Ambassador Zhu Jing to bring together business leaders from Chinese enterprises to discuss how to respond. Attendees at this week’s meeting called on Zhu to support enhanced security measures  for Chinese residents and businesses operating in the DR Congo.  This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happeni

The DR Congo’s ambassador to China, François Nkuna Balumuene, made a courtesy call visit last week to the headquarters of China Nonferrous Metal Mining Group (CNMC) Deziwa, the state-owned mining giant that runs huge copper and cobalt operations in the DRC. Balumuene reportedly spent the day at CNMC’s offices and,  according to the company , said the partnership between the firm and the DRC is a “model of cooperation.” This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Already a subs

A Tweet on Wednesday by China’s top diplomat for sub-Saharan Africa, Wu Peng, about yet another ground-breaking ceremony for a new school in Africa, this time in Ivory Coast, may seem mundane but it actually communicates three important trends in Africa-China relations: 1. INFRASTRUCTURE SOFT POWER : China doesn’t have celebrities or athletes that are of interest to African audiences but on a continent starved for infrastructure, China’s prowess in building roads, bridges, and, yes, schools is very compelling. It’s even more enticing when the infrastructure in question will serve young people, in a country where the median age is 18.9 years old. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese

The increasingly contentious dispute in Zimbabwe over the behavior of Chinese mining companies is now getting noticed back in China, where the popular online news site The Paper.cn published a detailed fact check report on some of the allegations against Chinese mining companies. The article focused largely  on a claim by well-known dissident journalist and longtime government critic Hopewell Chin’ono  who said that a Chinese mining company gave residents in a particular community just three months to move from their ancestral lands so it could mine coal in the area. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and t

The German consumer data service Statista published an interesting map on Tuesday that visualizes Africa’s two-decade-long transition from relying on imports from France and other European countries (possibly even the U.S.) to China. While the visualization is intriguing, the use of the word “takeover” in the infographic’s title is regrettable as it once against frames Africa as some sort of contested prize or something to be acquired. Paired with China in the headline, “takeover” is not an editorially neutral word. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subsc

While one U.S. foreign policy analyst after another  sounds the alarm on the threats posed by Chinese debt in Africa  and elsewhere, the reality is that finance policymakers across the continent are currently more anxious about what’s going to happen in Washington, specifically at the Federal Reserve. The Fed is widely expected to raise interest rates at its next meeting in March  in a bid to stem stubbornly high inflation in the U.S. If rates do go up, it could have a potentially severe impact on the continent’s already fragile balance sheets. Many African governments have been struggling to service their burgeoning debts while at the same time spending more on domestic social service programs. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to th

There’s been a noticeable increase this year in the frequency of seminars (off and online) in the United States about the Belt and Road and China’s role in Africa in particular. Generally speaking, the consensus among the participants, particularly those from the U.S., is quite negative towards China — not surprising given the worsening tensions between the U.S. and China, and the deeply embedded narratives in both countries that influence their respective discourses. There was certainly some of that sentiment in a recent online discussion hosted by  the New York-based non-profit Network 20/20  that featured  Gyude Moore from the Center for Global Development in Washington and Jennifer Hillman from the Council on Foreign Relations  but quite a few contrarian views were expressed as well — something you don’t hear very often among establishment analysts: This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a d

Interest in China-Africa relations among scholars and institutions in the U.S. appears to be on the rise in 2022, at least as measured by the number of webinars on the topic over the past couple of weeks: THE HOOVER INSTITUTION AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY:  The conservative policy institute hosted a discussion on “China’s Sharp Power in Africa” that featured paper presentations by Roukaya Kasenally, a democracy scholar and Associate Professor at the University of Mauritius, and Rueben Lifuka, head of a Zambia-based environmental and governance consulting firm. Generally speaking, the discussion was quite pessimistic about China’s impact on African governance — which shouldn’t come as a big surprise, considering that Hoover is typically quite hawkish towards China.  (WATCH HERE) U.S. INSTITUTE OF PEACE:  The Congressionally-financed Washington, D.C. policy institute convened a discussion among a group of African scholars about the peace and security dimensions that emerged from las

When Ethiopian ambassador to China Teshome Toga agreed to join online influencer Li Jiaqi on a livestream on Alibaba’s mega e-shopping platform T-mall to sell Ethiopian coffee, he no doubt imagined that he would have to do a bit of promotion to help jumpstart sales. Nope. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Already a subscriber? Log in Click Here to Learn More The post 5,600kgs of Ethiopian Coffee Sells Out in Just 5 Seconds on Alibaba’s Livestream appeared fir

Xiao Long’s (aka “Little Dragon”) YouTube vlog isn’t particularly exciting. He doesn’t  food blog , have  a cute girlfriend  that shoots his videos, or  go on fancy adventures  that fans love to watch. In fact, his monotone voice-over style is downright boring and nothing at all like the new generation of  Chinese bloggers in Africa who are attracting huge audiences . But what it lacks in production value, Xiao Long’s channel, which documents daily life in a rural Rwandan village, is absolutely fascinating.  This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe tod

Nigeria’s Transportation Minister (and likely presidential candidate) Rotimi Amaechi conducted a site visit on Saturday of the massive Lekki Deep Seaport project in Lagos where he said construction is now 80% finished. He added that he’s expecting Chinese contractors to finish work on the port “before the end of the year.” This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Already a subscriber? Log in Click Here to Learn More The post Construction of an Important Sino-Nigerian

The Ugandan embassy in Beijing and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs convened a hybrid on and offline conference on Friday to discuss how to boost Chinese trade and investment in the East African country. High on the agenda were the development of Uganda’s agricultural processing industry, public health (COVID and HIV mitigation), and new energy initiatives in both electricity and transportation. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Already a subscriber? Log in C

A simmering conflict between a coalition of 27 civil society groups in Zimbabwe and Chinese enterprises, mostly mining companies, boiled over late last week when organizations representing both sides published scathing statements about each other. The primary complaint by the civil society groups relates to longstanding grievances around the well-documented environmental and social impact of Chinese mining companies on rural communities. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savin

A column published on one of Ghana’s largest news portals, Ghanaweb, on Sunday highlights the difficulties confronting readers in determining what is legitimate editorial content and what is state-produced propaganda. Last week,  the official Ghana News Agency published a signed column by Ambassador Lu Kun  that promoted China’s vision for how countries like Ghana can recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Already a subscriber? Log in

Three Chinese warships left Guangdong on Saturday and are now making their way to the Gulf of Aden to take part in anti-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia.  However, the key question is how long they’ll stay. After 14 years, the Somali government now appears to have had enough of foreign warships in its waters and  informed the UN last month  that it would like the joint task force to disband at the end of February.  Mogadishu contends “piracy no longer poses a significant threat to regional peace and security.”  (XINHUA) Chinese COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Sinovac will build Africa’s largest vaccine cold storage facility in Egypt.  Ambassador Liao Liqiang and Acting Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar  led a signing ceremony in Cairo on Tuesday for the new vaccine storehouse . Separately, Ambassador Liao also announced that China would donate an additional 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Egypt.  (@AMBLIAOLIQIANG) This marketing content will be shown in place of yo

A 6-day convention aimed at promoting trade between China and countries surrounding the Great Lakes region in southeastern Africa wrapped up on Thursday in Wuxi. In all, representatives from 12 African states took part in the event in eastern China, including countries like Angola that are not technically part of the Great Lakes region. One of the key takeaways from this week’s expo is the fact that it took place in the eastern city of Wuxi near Shanghai rather than in one of the more traditional African business hubs in China like Guangzhou or Beijing. This is part of a broader trend where Chinese provincial and even municipal actors are playing a more important role in the Sino-African trading relationship. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Ful

A group of four Chinese nationals who arrived at the Lubumbashi International Airport in the southern DR Congo last week were refused entry into the country and were deported back to China. Congolese immigration authorities claim the four, three men, and one woman, all did not have the proper visa to enter the country. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Already a subscriber? Log in Click Here to Learn More The post Four Chinese Nationals Refused Entry in the DR

The African fact-checking service Africa Check  called out the U.S. government-run news channel VOA  for mischaracterizing the share of Kenya’s external debt to China. In an article published on January 6th about Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to Kenya, VOA reporter Mohammed Yusuf incorrectly stated that “ Chinese money accounts for 67% of Kenya’s  external debt ,” which is not true. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Already a subscriber? Log in Click Here

India has long regarded the larger Indian Ocean region and portions of East Africa as within its traditional sphere of influence, at least in relation to China. So, it’s not surprising that Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s trip earlier this month to five countries in both regions sparked considerable interest among Indian foreign policy observers. With relations between Asia’s two largest countries already under strain, Wang’s visit was seen as an expression of Beijing’s desire to further encroach on New Delhi’s geopolitical interests and an effort to erode the perception that India is a better model of governance for Africa than China: This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engage

Author and journalist Howard W. French prompted a lively discussion on Twitter this week following the publication of  his weekly World Politics Review column  that drew parallels between the Soviet Union’s embrace of Africa during the Cold War with China’s present-day engagement. One key difference he noted is the American response. The Soviet advance in Africa prompted the Kennedy administration to introduce “a raft of new policy initiatives focused on Africa and the Third World more broadly” whereas today China’s presence on the continent has failed to generate the same kind of response of in Washington.  This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout t

A new, big-budget romantic comedy centering on a China-Africa love story is now in wide release in Chinese multiplexes. “My African Bride,” whose title in Chinese translates to “a daughter-in-law in the village,” tells the story of a young couple who returns to the groom’s hometown in rural China where his new African bride confronts the challenges of adapting to life in a conservative culture unaccustomed to interacting with outsiders. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Saving

Two South African expatriates living in China sat down for brunch last Sunday to share some straight talk with their YouTube subscribers over what it’s really like to be Black in China. The pair, who only identify themselves by their YouTube handles Lwazi M and Cnefaith Mcstabber, provide candid stories about their experiences dating, working, and living in a small Chinese city. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Already a subscriber? Log in Click Here to Learn More

South Africa lags far behind other middle-income countries in the availability of electric vehicles but Chinese brands like Eleksa are hoping to change with the introduction of new cars like the $15,000 Citybug. The two-door compact seats four and has a range of up to 200km. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Already a subscriber? Log in Click Here to Learn More The post Meet the CityBug: The Newest Chinese-made EV to Go On Sale In South Africa appeared first

South Africa’s intensely competitive car market may provide a glimpse into the future of global automotive trade with Chinese brands successfully competing with rivals from the U.S., Germany, Japan, and South Korea. In fact, SA is one of the only markets in the world where a Chinese SUV, the Haval Jolion,  has been a top-ten seller for much of the past year  — outperforming Nissan, Kia, and VW among others. And there may be another model vying for one of those slots when Chery’s highly-anticipated Tiggo 8 Pro seven-seater SUV arrives at dealers “ within weeks .” Chery’s been getting some good buzz in the market after popular auto critics like Hannes Oosthuizen from cars.co.za  gave their smaller Tiggo 4 Pro a good review last month . This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping Chi

Kenyan immigration arrested six Chinese nationals last week as part of a broader crackdown against foreigners illegally living and working in the country. The six range in age between 25 and 30 years old, and were detained after authorities received a local tip. This latest crackdown on foreigners working in Kenya without work permits was triggered three months ago when a number of Pakistani individuals were arrested for visa violations after failing to transfer to Saudi Arabia. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Mon

Two suspected robbers were quickly arrested after they scaled the security fence surrounding a Chinese UN peacekeeping base in the South Kivu city of Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The incident took place last Thursday when the assailants triggered alarm systems wired to the fence that prompted a search by heavily armed blue-helmeted PLA soldiers. This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Already a subscriber? Log in Click Here to Learn More T

Centuries ago early British imperialists recognized the vast potential of the China market. They fantasized that if every Chinese man added just one inch to their shirts, it would have the cotton mills of Manchester spinning for decades. That dream of riches from the enormous Chinese market is alive and well today, but this time it’s the Chinese themselves promoting the fantasy.  This marketing content will be shown in place of your protected content to anyone who is not allowed to read the post… Get a daily email packed with the latest China-Africa news and analysis. Read exclusive insights on the key trends shaping China-Africa relations. Full access to the News Feed that provides daily updates on Chinese engagement in Africa and throughout the Global South. China, Africa and the Global South... find out what’s happening. Subscribe today for unlimited access. Monthly $15/mo OR Yearly $149/yr (17% Savings) Already a subscriber? Log in Click Here to Learn More