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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 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

  • 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

A year to mend broken promises

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

  • Vol 3 No 3
  • 01/01/2010

Academics find holes in China's Marshall Plan

Debate within China has been raging for some time over the solution to the problem of slumping exports. One of the more controversial ideas that has been floated is a ‘Marshall Plan for Africa’ (AAC Vol 2 No 10). The idea is far from coherent, with sev...

  • Vol 3 No 3
  • 01/01/2010

Yin Zhuo

Rear Admiral, People’s Liberation Army Navy, China

  • Vol 3 No 3
  • 01/01/2010

Li Qiangmin

China’s Ambassador to Zambia

  • Vol 3 No 2
  • 01/12/2009

Beijing's bankroll for Bong's ore

The China Development Bank promises to save China Union's US$2.68 Bong Mine project but will take an 85% stake to provide the finance and pay Monrovia

  • Vol 3 No 2
  • 01/12/2009

China's positioning in the Kosmos

Although Chinese companies have not yet bid for Kosmos's 30% stake in Ghana's Jubilee field, the China Development Bank has bought Beijing's companies a great deal of capital. The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation wants to block United States oil m...

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