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- Vol 3 No 5
- 01/03/2010
East-West Highway to trouble
Political rivalries in Algiers deepen as Chinese companies are named in an anti-corruption probe into Africa’s biggest road project
- Vol 3 No 5
- 01/03/2010
Companies and contracts under scrutiny
There are four main strands to the sweeping the anti-corruption investigations launched in the wake of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s win with 90% of the votes cast in the elections on 9 April 2009: the review of the East-West Highway project now costed...
- Vol 3 No 5
- 01/03/2010
New pressure on China deals
The new government is divided on demands for a review of the $7bn China International Fund contracts
- Vol 3 No 5
- 01/03/2010
Reshuffling Luanda's Beijing connection
As the President rearranges his government and calls for another crackdown on corruption, Beijing’s friends can take nothing for granted
- Vol 3 No 5
- 01/03/2010
Victory for the Kinshasa vultures
The execution of the US$6 billion ore-for-infrastructure deal originally signed in April 2008 between the Congolese state and Chinese companies China Railway Group and Sinohydro has suffered a setback. On 10 February, the Hong Kong High Court of Appeal de...
- Vol 3 No 5
- 01/03/2010
Banda bags a billion
Zambia does not always get what it wants or what it wants at the right time. President Rupiah Banda went on a 10-day official visit to China in late February and came back with a raft of promises of new investments, even in agriculture, just when the poli...
- Vol 3 No 4
- 01/02/2010
Kinshasa’s missing millions
Evidence of grand corruption mounts in Beijing’s showcase $6 billion barter deal with the Kinshasa government
- Vol 3 No 4
- 01/02/2010
Fixing Kinshasa's broken boulevards
Agreed in November 2009, the second phase of infrastructure deals associated with the Sicomines joint venture is worth US$400 million and is expected to provide Congolese President Joseph Kabila with a list of projects about which he can boast in the ...
- Vol 3 No 4
- 01/02/2010
Tullow takes Lake Albert
The Ugandan government has approved Tullow’s bid for Heritage’s stakes in Lake Albert, allowing the Irish company to work with CNOOC
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