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  • Vol 3 No 9
  • 01/07/2010

Changing sides with profit

Malawi has profitably switched its allegiance to China from Taiwan with a price tag of over US$350 million. In the past two years, China has taken over road and building projects from Taiwan and added more soft loans. Lilongwe's official relationship w...

  • Vol 3 No 9
  • 01/07/2010

Take the diamonds and run

A fly-by-night Indian company registered in Hong Kong has packed its bags and disappeared after mining diamonds and not paying taxes for more than four years. Kasaï Oriental's Direction Provinciale des Recettes (DPR) and the parastatal diamond mi...

  • Vol 3 No 9
  • 01/07/2010

Choose your poison

The shadowy joint venture between Angola's state-owned oil company and the nebulous China International Fund has reached a new stumbling block in its three-year-old pursuit of a major stake in Tanzania's national airline. Infrastructure Minister Shuku...

  • 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...

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