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Vol 2 No 11
September 2009

Telecoms domination in three fell swoops

Financial and communication technology are powering major Indian deals

Vol 2 No 11
September 2009

Africa slips down the foreign policy agenda

After its regime change, Tokyo will focus more on China and the USA and begin a cost-cutting review of its Africa and development policy initiatives

Vol 2 No 11
September 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 10
August 2009

Labouring the point

A new report by African trades unionists accuses Chinese companies of breaking regulations on minimum wages and working conditions

Vol 2 No 10
August 2009

African officials ignore labour abuses

African Labour Research Network investigators found that many factory inspectors at Kenya's Labour Ministry took bribes from Chinese and other companies to overlook bad practices. Despite reports that in Malawi, workers for Chinese companies were mixi...

Vol 2 No 10
August 2009

Beijing debates world's biggest aid fund

Chinese officials are discussing ways to use some of their country's $2.1 trillion in foreign reserves to finance what could be the world's biggest development aid programme, as Western economies are still staggering under the weight of recession. Th...

Vol 2 No 10
August 2009

The rice and the rot

Opposition politicians in Delhi are pressing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Congress Party government for a full investigation into allegations of corrupt deals worth 25 billion rupees (US$520 million) in rice exports from India to five African states...

Vol 2 No 9
July 2009

Mittal's meltdown

Hobbled by the global business downturn and billions of dollars in debt, Mittal's plans to turn West Africa into its iron-ore hub are on hold

Vol 2 No 9
July 2009

Al Qaida may target Chinese in Africa

More signs are emerging that China is being drawn inexorably into Africa's internal politics and is being compelled to take sides in wider geopolitical disputes. This time, the trigger was the violence between the predominantly Muslim Uighurs and Han ...

Vol 2 No 9
July 2009

Tokyo's new loans for Africa

Japan is to add another US$4 billion in new concessional loans to Africa over the next five years, outpacing the spending of the China-Africa Development Fund, according to Koji Yonetani, the Counsellor for Economy and Development Affairs at Japan's E...

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