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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 8
  •  June 2011

Aurora’s gold mine collapses

On 2 June, Congress of South African Trade Unions General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi called on the government to launch an investigation into Aurora Empowerment Systems and the Pamodzi Gold liquidators for what he described as looting, asset-stripping and ...

  • Vol 4 No 8
  •  June 2011

Doors open, doors close

In early June, Guinea’s President Alpha Condé set the tone for more tense negotiations with mining investors when he declared that Chinese-style mines-for-infrastructure deals are unacceptable. The government has also extracted a US$700 million payment fr...

  • Vol 4 No 7
  •  May 2011

China Sonangol still hungry

China Sonangol and its subsidiaries continue to make Angolan acquisitions. In February, China Sonangol won three deep-water pre-salt oil (equity) concessions in Blocks 19, 20 and 38, adding to its existing shares in Blocks 3, 31 and 32. Meanwhile Sonangol...

  • Vol 4 No 7
  •  May 2011

Give without counting

The Chinese government is slowly changing its aid reporting statistics so that its programmes can be compared to those of other donors

  • Vol 4 No 7
  •  May 2011

Making room for friends

London-listed Madagascar Oil’s battles with the Malagasy government are heating up. The two sides are now heading for international arbitration. The dispute arose when the Haute Autorité de la Transition (HAT) government began looking for oil and mining p...

  • Vol 4 No 7
  •  May 2011

Trucks, triads and subs

Few believe the official explanation that 87-year-old President Robert Mugabe’s frequent visits to Singapore are to monitor his February cataract operation or that he is being the doting husband to his injured wife, Grace. Equally few believe that the sim...

  • Vol 4 No 7
  •  May 2011

Li Changchun

Member, CCP Central Committee Politburo Standing Committee

  • Vol 4 No 6
  •  April 2011

Trading partners

New indigenisation rules mean that European mining companies are on the way out while Asian companies are protected by their allies in Harare

  • Vol 4 No 6
  •  April 2011

Sino-Zimbabwe in the Marange diamond fields

The Kimberley Process suspended diamond sales from Marange in 2009 due to concerns about transparency in the production chain and the illicit activities of the security services in the region, so the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Z...

  • Vol 4 No 6
  •  April 2011

What the doctor ordered

The corruption trial of Malawi’s former President Bakili Muluzi at the Blantyre High Court exposes the lack of transparency and good governance in Taiwan’s aid to African countries. Bakili Muluzi, 69, stands accused of misappropriating US$12 million ...

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