Rajpriya Gautam

Kenya’s transportation minister Joseph Njoroge reaffirmed the government’s longstanding refusal to make public the $3.9 billion contract with the state-owned China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) to build the Standard Gauge Railway. Njoroge’s cited a host of reasons for rejecting the appeal made by a pair of civil society activists who’ve taken the government to court in an effort to force the Transportation Ministry to reveal the terms of the contract. 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...

This week’s  Financial Times story by Africa Editor David Pilling and Greater China Correspondent Kathrin Hille  on the slowdown in Chinese infrastructure lending in Africa  provoked a largely favorable response among international audiences  but almost no reaction from Chinese stakeholders… until today. Not surprisingly,  the reactionary nationalist tabloid Global Times was not happy  at all with Pilling and Hille’s framing of the story and summarily dismissed the report as “more like an opinion piece than a news article.” 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...

The recent pullback in Chinese lending for African infrastructure development makes sense, given debt sustainability problems in more than a third of the countries across the continent, explained Damilola Akinbami, the Lagos-based head of research at Financial Derivatives Company  in an interview on the Nigerian television network Arise News : Bear in mind that according to an IMF report, at least 20 African countries are either in debt distress or at high risk of falling into debt distress, so obviously any lender would take a step back and ask “what is happening and should I reduce my exposure to this continent?” So that is what we’re seeing play out and China is going to review its lending structure to Africa and may start targeting small and medium scale projects, and will be more specific in its lending projects, so it’s not going to be general, or large infrastructure projects — [instead we’ll see more] small infrastructure projects. This marketing content will be shown i...

High-level Chinese and Nigerian security officials met on Monday in Abuja to discuss how to reduce crime and violence against Chinese nationals residing in Nigeria. Yin Guohai from China’s powerful Ministry of Public Security along with Ambassador Cui Jianchun held talks with the Director-General of the State Security Services, Yusuf Bichi, on Monday about the deteriorating security environment in Nigeria and what can be done to better protect Chinese people and enterprises. 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...

Protests erupted this week in the far northeastern Congolese province of Haut-Uélé where small-scale miners rallied against the growing presence of Chinese mining companies in the region. The marchers, mostly young men, are upset about how Chinese mining companies are using large machines to mine along the Arebi river, making it more difficult for artisanal miners to compete. 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...

Provincial lawmakers in the southern Chinese province of Hunan approved a set of new measures this week that are designed to boost the province’s already sizable trade with Africa.  Members of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth People’s Congress of Hunan Province announced on Wednesday  the creation of a new free trade zone (FTZ) that is specifically aimed at facilitating commerce with African countries. 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...

Like a high-stakes version of speed dating, Persian Gulf foreign ministers and the Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) met one after the other with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in the eastern city of Wuxi outside of Shanghai.  The day’s most important session took place on Monday between Wang and  Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud . Later, Wang also met with his  Bahraini counterpart Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani  followed by talks with GCC head Nayef bin Falah Al-Hajraf. 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 Sout...