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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 4 No 11
  •  September 2011

Pulling away CIF’s welcome mat

Guinean President Alpha Condé has removed the most attractive clauses of China International Fund’s joint venture agreement with the former military junta of Captain Moussa Dadis Camara. The CIF’s framework deal with the Guinean government allowed for CIF...

  • Vol 4 No 11
  •  September 2011

To Berbera and beyond

A Chinese company is backing infrastructure projects to develop secessionist Somaliland and give Ethiopia greater access to the sea

  • Vol 4 No 11
  •  September 2011

Vanishing truckers

Key suspects in a fraud case linked to Grace Mugabe have disappeared, as have Buddhist monks behind a charity project on one of her properties

  • Vol 4 No 11
  •  September 2011

Timber company cuts corners

Smuggling is one of the biggest open secrets in Gabon’s forestry sector. Ever since the government began trying to mandate more local value-added processing of logs, the raw timber trade has slowed while the local industry struggles to develop processing ...

  • Vol 4 No 11
  •  September 2011

Harbour of resentment

A decision by the Namibian state-owned port operator to pre-award an estimated US$285 million contract for the Walvis Bay harbour expansion to the China Harbour Engineering Company ahead of 17 other local and international companies has ruffled feathers, ...

  • Vol 4 No 11
  •  September 2011

Lu Xingyu

Chairman, China-Africa Project Hope

  • Vol 4 No 10
  •  August 2011

Uganda to miss digital deadline

As Huawei Technologies hits trouble in Uganda, Chinese communications projects encounter legal problems from East Africa down to Southern Africa

  • Vol 4 No 10
  •  August 2011

Raids and rivalries

A raid on telecoms company ZTE has called attention to illegal immigration and the rough competition between Chinese companies in South Africa. The Department of Home Affairs, the South African Police Service and the Hawks, an anti-corruption unit,...

  • Vol 4 No 10
  •  August 2011

Build a better arms regime

Countries are calling for a new arms treaty which incorporates human-rights provisions, but China is wary

  • Vol 4 No 10
  •  August 2011

Arms trade treaty timetable

December 2006: Argentina, Australia, Britain, Costa Rica, Finland, Japan and Kenya author Resolution 61/89, ‘Toward an arms trade treaty: establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms’. The Unite...

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