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China
Population: 1,330,044,544
GNI, $ Millions: 2,669,627
Debt: $363 billion
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Having hit most of its targets from the 2006 FOCAC, Beijing laid out a similarly ambitious programme for 2009-2012 at the 2009 Sharm el Sheikh FOCAC, including $10 bn. in concessional loans, more cooperation in the sciences and technology transfers. China will face more questions about opaque companies like China Sonangol and China International Fund, which committed to $15 bn. of investment in Guinea and Zimbabwe in 2009.

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  • Vol 3 No 5
  •  March 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
  •  March 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
  •  March 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 5
  •  March 2010

Zhu Min

Special Advisor to the Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

  • Vol 3 No 4
  •  February 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
  •  February 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
  •  February 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

  • Vol 3 No 4
  •  February 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
  •  February 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
  •  January 2010

A year to mend broken promises

After a dramatic fall in its trade and investment in Africa, Beijing pledges a return to exponential growth

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