Briefing
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Found 27 articles.
- Vol 3 No 4
- 01/02/2010
Beijing's builders are back
The on-again off-again plan to renovate the railway linking coastal Lagos to Kano in the north may formally start up this year, but questions about the validity of any contract signed between the Chinese companies and the Nigerian government remain unt...
- Vol 3 No 4
- 01/02/2010
China Union’s clouds have iron linings
More than a year and two amendments later, progress is finally being made on little-known China Union’s US$2.68 billion deal to redevelop Liberia’s Bong Mines. In her apologetic New Year address, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf announced that a second ...
- Vol 3 No 3
- 01/01/2010
The year ahead
Cambodia: peacekeeping and trade, Indonesia: the spirit of Bandung, Malaysia: agribusiness and oil, North Korea: vanity projects and arms sales, Pakistan: smuggling and fraud, Singapore: business junket, South Korea: good intentions, Thailand: expanding t...
- Vol 3 No 2
- 01/12/2009
All that glitters is mine
The details of the US$8 billion China Sonangol/China International Fund are becoming more apparent as subsidiary deals are signed. On 7 December, Zimbabwe's Transport and Mining Ministries signed mining and construction deals with China International F...
- Vol 3 No 2
- 01/12/2009
Hurry up, wait and renegotiate
Gabon's politicians continue to question the delays in the starting-up of the Bélinga iron ore mine and its associated infrastructure works. But financing issues and constant threats of renegotiation have not inspired confidence. As may happen t...
- Vol 3 No 2
- 01/12/2009
World Bank to link Africa and Asia
World Bank President Robert Zoellick's plan to bring the Asian hyper-economies into the international development community is now bearing fruit. On 3 December, Zoellick told London's Financial Times that Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming showed '...
- Vol 2 No 11
- 01/09/2009
Financial follow-through
Aggressive investment by the China Investment Corporation, which manages nearly US$300 billion of Beijing's $2.1 trillion in foreign reserves, is leading to a boom in Africa-focused investments. In early September, World Bank President Robert Zoellick beg...
- Vol 2 No 11
- 01/09/2009
Nuclear-fuelled relations
New Delhi made one of its most important energy and resource deals in Africa on 31 August, signing an accord with the Namibian government to allow for trade in uranium to supply India's energy-starved electricity sector. Memorandums of understanding signe...
- Vol 2 No 11
- 01/09/2009
The great South Korean commercial offensive
The latest result of the close ties between Kinshasa and Seoul was revealed on 8 September by Générose Lushiku, Congo-Kinshasa's Minister of Urbanism and Habitat, who announced that South Korea's Berea International had won a US$225 million contract to bu...
- Vol 2 No 11
- 01/09/2009
An oil barter rescue
Oil industry officials in Accra are linking Finance Minister Kwabena Duffuor's 18 September statement that Ghana had applied for a US$2 billion concessional loan from China to Beijing's bid for a stake in Ghana's oil and gas industry. On 27 August, Chin...
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