Fatou Bensouda Richard Sezibera Cyrus Mistry Pa’gan Amum Okiech Business doors open wide The diplomatic truce goes on Recognition mission Aggressive passivity India’s new frontier How the IMF helps Chinese companies The year of the dragon, again Alain Akouala Atipault Tsukasa Kawada Madhusudan Ganapathi Moussa Dosso Plant a seed It’s energy that counts Housing scheme crumbles Essar takes control of Zisco Kaunda settles Sata's differences with Beijing Alarm over security deal China and India join aid cooperation USA shapes Asia plans Pipeline problems Longing for Lamu A special relationship in the making Beijing’s gas loan tests IMF Gwede Mantashe Mahendra Siregar Wylbur Simuusa Recep Tayyip Erdogan Indian mining houses struggle for contracts The unions turn up the pressure National interests and hard cash IMF worried about Chinese loans again Frozen funds Diverse diplomats Maputo’s pan-Asian business plan Protection makes a racket Harare in the sky with diamonds Underground and under threat Wild cats and King Cobra Alpha Condé Jyotiraditya Scindia Yoshihiko Noda Mustafa Abdel Jalil Water and copper under the bridge China Sonangol is open for business Dalai Lama dumped again Rebuilding relations Faith, Grace and intervention The wages of Xin Animated investors in the diamond mines Diamond dealers Insider trading Ties will remain strong, says Sata Koichiro Gemba Lu Xingyu Patrice Motsepe Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi Harbour of resentment Timber company cuts corners Fire sale STX's house is falling down Zisco deal still kicking Vanishing truckers To Berbera and beyond Pulling away CIF’s welcome mat Betting on Boffa The revolution will be financed Nhial Deng Nhial Doan Xuan Hung Margaret Chan B. Prasada Rao Ready, able and unlikely A friend in need Towering trade Highway to development Get in line Build a better arms regime Arms trade treaty timetable Raids and rivalries Uganda to miss digital deadline Not so fast, Frank You can pick your friends Smart partnerships The Bulldozer arrives Shifting foundation Squatters, pipes and rails Slow movers Trucking trials Polish to a shine Progress noted Castles made of sand Sumio Kusaka Hillary Rodham Clinton Nkosinathi Mthethwa Sellapan Ramanathan Karen Agustiawan Park Kwang-kee Madické Niang Manmohan Singh: A reforming economist Spinning and sowing Doors open, doors close Aurora’s gold mine collapses Strategic depth charge Leading lights Contracts galore but no delivery Bélinga bonus, uncertainty for CMEC The charge for Africa Juba promises continuity for Asian investors Sanjay Kirloskar Maite Nkoana-Mashabane Li Changchun Manuel Vicente Trucks, triads and subs Making room for friends Big plans, small city-state Chasing China Give without counting From Dakar to Durban China Sonangol still hungry Shine on you crazy diamond Riding the rails Wang Tianpu Tarah Shaanika Kim Sung-hwan Odein Ajumogobia Building relationships Old debts and new deals One law for Zambians, another for Chinese What the doctor ordered Station to station Pitchers required Aftershocks Sino-Zimbabwe in the Marange diamond fields Trading partners Liu Zhiming Salva Kiir Mayardit Franky Oesman Widjaja Jen-Chih 'Robert' Huang Friends and benefits A new nation Road builders Good neighbours All roads lead to Beijing Surveying Sicomines Do it by the deadline Campaigns made in China Solid foundations Beijing and Delhi change tack Christina Tan Takeaki Matsumoto Chung Joon-yang Mthuli Ncube What’s mine is mine The island scandal calls home Opening the tent It’s mine The Great Dyke anomaly Platinum-bottomed deals Who can you call? Can’t pay, won’t pay Minding the mines Andry's Asian alliances under fire Election funds? Try Hong Kong Sriprakash Jaiswal Park Young-june Seyoum Mesfin Makiko Kikuta South-south support Sowing seeds Building without BRICs Japanese flip-flops The home front ‘An emerging priority’ Top in trade and investment Kim Jae-shin Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba Wu Den-yih Xi Jinping Triangular trade India sets the pace Rust never sleeps The Asian aid summit Seoul’s new strategy How to plan the planning The next big plan Digging deeper Beijing’s balancing act Ravi Ruia Andrew Mitchell Vital Kamerhe Wang Min Best laid plans TAZARA troubles Bullets over Darfur Doing the Charamba Chinese trains for TGV Hyperactive relations The price of debt forgiveness Diplomatic wins and aid wobbles Stalemate in Seoul Gong Jianzhong Seiji Maehara Meles Zenawi Ratan N. Tata Win-win turns to win-lose Cooperating with Cohydro Blood diamonds and old soldiers India follows China’s lead Spooks, not railways Building a Chinatown in Catembe Maputo opens its markets China Hyway Group’s mines-for-roads deal More contracts as the vote looms The cost of Ghana’s Asian Alliance A consensual affair Shoot first, negotiate later Liu Yuhe Osamu Fujimura Felix Mutati Chun Seung-hun Downtown crackdown Seoul's modest but steady progress Friends and competitors Aiming high Beijing backs Nairobi over Omer el Beshir China weighs its options In the BRIC of it Relations have never been better Queueing up for Lake Albert's oil Lining up for Jubilee Frank Timis Liu Zhenmin Mswati III Lee Yi Shyan A Mugabe shakedown at the Shanghai Expo Luanda's oil lifeline Beijing offers an iron bailout Vietnam's two-way trade Hanoi's great leap forward Coalition of the controllers Beijing beams its messages Scepticism grows over STX houses Gadaffi guns for Seoul's spy A golden child in Zuma's family Oil - after independence Wang Gang Hamidon Ali Wang Jin-pyng Manoj Kohli Choose your poison Take the diamonds and run Changing sides with profit Beijing gazumps New Delhi A whale's tale Telecom troubles And the winner is...the CIF Fishing for votes CIF sitting pretty in Guinea Balancing act S.M. Krishna Xia Huang Morgan Tsvangirai Chen Bingde Building an improbable railway Get in the game Is what is good for Zijin good for Congo? Out of the starting blocks Private grief, state cash Taxing times Fertile fields for India The highway on trial Beijing in the line of fire Mike Hung Ajai Chowdhry Stan Mudenge Slow to let go of Hitachi Nguyen Minh Triet Beijing digs deeper into Zambian mines The long shadow of dollar diplomacy CIF, Beijing’s stalking horse Building on oil money Beleaguered Bélinga Asian solutions for Africa’s refinery problems Oiling the gears Tweeting Tharoor and the cricket controversy Round-trips and hot money Mahmoud Mohieldin Stephen Shu-hung Shen Lee Myung-bak Jia Qinglin Nuctech’s nobody More ore, more problems More multibillion mining contracts for Kinshasa For Punjabi farmers, an African frontier Wanted: special partners CADF in Africa: Deals from 2009-2010 CADF in Africa: Deals from 2007-2008 CADF expands Africa network Naruhito Zhu Min Roger Busima Kataala Kofi Annan Monuc moves out Banda bags a billion Victory for the Kinshasa vultures Reshuffling Luanda's Beijing connection How militias control the mines New pressure on China deals Companies and contracts under scrutiny East-West Highway to trouble Evariste Boshab Kim Hyong-o Anil Agarwal Donald Kaberuka China Union’s clouds have iron linings Anti-Asian strength in numbers Beijing's builders are back Tullow takes Lake Albert Asian national minnows Untoward Indian tillers RITES not right Fixing Kinshasa's broken boulevards Kinshasa’s missing millions How to manage expectations Yin Zhuo Li Qiangmin Shin Kak-soo Mohammad Hamid Ansari The year ahead Sitting on the fence Deconstructing Chindia Academics find holes in China's Marshall Plan A year to mend broken promises Stanley Ho Musa Kusa Song Sang-hyun Kasit Piromya World Bank to link Africa and Asia Hurry up, wait and renegotiate All that glitters is mine Grease for the wheels of friendship New men for a new push A useful deal in the Delta It's not over until it's over China's positioning in the Kosmos Mortgages and minerals The Liberian contribution to the stir-fry Beijing's bankroll for Bong's ore Ahmed Aboul Gheit Rajiv Sawhney René N'guettia Kouassi Xu Jinghu The rice run-around An electric strategy Seoul brothers More catalyst than juggernaut FOCAC 2009 brings more promises Chinese promises, made, respected and broken FOCAC meets expectations China Sonangol targets Harare’s gold and oil The junta rewards new friends Zhao Jianping Phung Dinh Thuc Shashi Tharoor Chin-tien (Timothy) Yang Power surge in Addis Cameroon/Asia: New farmers from the East The next great land sale The race to give Museveni what he wants Abuja writes the playbook, Beijing brings the players Graphic: China International Fund's web of public and private backers How the Sino-Angolan alliance works The faces behind the funds Blood and money in the streets Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary Srinath Narasimhan Katsuya Okada Jiang Jiemin An oil barter rescue The great South Korean commercial offensive Nuclear-fuelled relations Financial follow-through Africa slips down the foreign policy agenda The oil revenue row Telecoms domination in three fell swoops The Luanda-Beijing axis targets Guinea Luanda diversifies its portfolio Map: Asian money and African mines Jiang Weiqiang Yasukazu Hamada Sizwe Nxasana Gurjit Singh The rice and the rot Gagner-gagner - they claim KNOC, KNOC, who is there? Beijing debates world's biggest aid fund African officials ignore labour abuses Labouring the point South Africa's arms deals with Asia Wade's monumental error Strategic resources and global rivalries The race for strategic minerals Small corridors of power at Nuctech Beijing in scanner scandal MTN, militants and share claims MTN-Bharti merger Mittal's meltdown China woos the team of rivals Undue diligence in the timber sector End of the line for Durbar Al Qaida may target Chinese in Africa Tokyo's new loans for Africa Michael Chilufya Sata Seiko Hashimoto Dai Bingguo Najib Razak ICBC's toe in African waters Leaky dam builders Billions for all Minerals meltdown As sweet as chocolate Tug of war Wade's skyscraper legacy China's trains, Zimbabwe's tobacco Re-enter the dragon Zhang Ming Musa Hitam Nong Duc Manh R.S. Sharma Kim Yong-nam Yuan Nangsheng Hirofumi Nakasone Thaksin Shinawatra With your permission Friends in the right places Contract confusion Not the promised land Oil, votes and Beijing A shake-out after the crash Washington adjusts to the Chinindia factor Somalia tests maritime solidarity The battle for the Indian Ocean Wu Zexian Pradeep Kumar Chaudhery Nobuhide Minorikawa Pornthiva Nakasai Not learning lessons Where confidence is currency Old King Coal If not trade or aid, then what? Big numbers on Congo's telecoms projects Debt, markets and Beijing Abuja's Asian connections From win-win to lose-lose Deal or no deal The Bong revival This wheel's on fire Ditching the Dalai Lama Yukiya Amano and Abdul Samad Minty Shantayanan Devarajan Alphonsus Chia Chung Mun Victoria Kwakwa Banking on secrecy When Irish eyes are smiling Seoul's safety in numbers A target of the revolution Business is politics A 'challenge and a big stress' Missing the target Diamonds in the rough Bank East The sun also rises T.C. Venkat Subramanian Yukio Takasu Ma Ying-jeou Hu Jintao The new Conakry order Beijing news network Best friends again Makokou answers back Iron in the soul Contract shuffles What's yours is mine and... Vultures over Kinshasa Twixt Beijing and the IMF The born-again Bong mines A more perfect union Ghana's votes and China's dams Another new world order Ploughing new fields Delhi defies the downturn State agencies lead the way Good intentions meet reality Africa tests rapprochement Ibrahim Ali Hassan Cho Hwan-eik Chen Deming Muhyiddin Yassin Never mind the yuan, feel the ideology The twins and trade The power of the provinces The waiting list Crumbling cement Tokyo's plans Nkunda's anti-Beijing card Go East, old man Liu Qi Tenzin Gyatso Deepak Kapoor Vu Tien Loc Uwe Wissenbach Kamal Nath Kang Man-soo Wu Bangguo Diplomacy still has dollars for some Washington wants the details Mapping the arms sales New forces in the arms bazaar Seoul search in Africa The honeymoon is over Chen Yuan Jairam Ramesh Motoyoshi Noro Chin Dong-soo Xu Jianguo Wang Yi Shamsudeen Usman Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Nobutake Odano Not working out Ticad Talks A $50 Billion Handshake How Africa could feed itself... And Asia too Two continents, one food crisis Chalo Africa In the Navy The Delhi Durbar Masatu Kitera Tiong Hiew King Akhil Gupta Hu Deping Reviews and renegotiations, again No oil guarantees Contract Cavalcade Who's who in policy and politics Slim differences among the parties The Yokohama summit Francisco Ou Jignesh Shah Ken Costa Family feud Glass Houses Chips off the old block Japan-Africa trade and aid China's African expeditions 2002-2008 Probing the Peacekeepers Asia's oil interests in Africa Unravelling the UN investigation Singapore's Africa Team The wealthy autocratic model Civil society tiptoes in The new order Here comes Hokkaido Chi Jianxin Nguyen Tan Dung Purnomo Yusgiantoro Justin Yifu Lin Lee Won-gul Zhai Jun Szechwan samba Lights off The copper clashes K.V. Kamath Firing up the coal All politics is international Hassan Wirajuda Changing horses West Africa looks east The trains don't run on time From Tokyo to Bamako Single-minded politics More policing of the peacekeepers Speedy motors miracle Number crunching Cementing new relations The tough trade talks after Hokkaido Lou Jiwei Competing to finance Africa Suppiah Dhanabalan China's battling banks Developing and insuring prosperity Wired for growth Murli Deora Jean Ping How to spend it Asia’s pills for Africa’s ills The water margin Any more business? Year of the rat India's nuclear family Delhi reaches out Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu Li Jinjun Anand Sharma Ramakrishna Sithanen Blue helmets, red faces Tokyo's test See you in court Flying higher Washington, Beijing or African consensus? In deep water Three is a crowd Constructive competition The Beijing development plan Ren Zhengfei Partha S. Bhattacharyya Choi Young-Jin Supachai Panitchpakdi Playing the odds Tokyo eyes the sparklers Ambitious investments Dollar diplomacy fails More competition for Tokyo Leading horses to water New regime, new policy Investment and jobs China, India and the vote The markets react A softer landing in the East Jiang Jianqing Masahiko Koumura Muhammad Yunus Liu Guijin Zhong Jianhua Li Ruogu Ban Ki-moon Kamalesh Sharma Raman Dhawan Mohamed Hassan Marican Yang Jiechi: Chief Diplomat of the Road Akihiko Furuya Africa's Chinese guests China Eximbank projects in Angola Coming cleanish on the money The new men in place Contractor controversy Reverse thrust Permission to come on board? Pirates of the Red Sea China returns to Africa Seoul's high-tech axis Smaller is beautiful Dam payment Trade: Choosing China Champions of commerce Checking the assets Diamonds are not forever Quiet on the eastern front The great building race Another chance for Asia Beijing, the rebels’ target Bringing it all back home Soft power & the glory Tokyo raises its game Strategic partnerships Charting Africa's Chinese future La grande bouffe Hands across the water Shifting sands With friends like these... The battle for Ndjamena New order, new deals China's Nova Luanda Big oil, high stakes