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China-Ghana

The significance of Chinese-funded Bui Dam in Ghana

Aid, trade and foreign direct investments typify China's global rise and its African activities. ...

fake news

Covid-19 vaccine: Debunking the myths

South Africa's Covid-19 vaccine rollout programme, outlined by the Ministry of Health, had three phases, starting with the most vulnerable ... population.

A farmer collects a cocoa pod at a farm in Alepe

Ghana, wake up! China is exporting Cocoa to Belgium

Of the $130bn chocolate industry, African cocoa exporters make just a small slice. To seize more of the value of a bar of chocolate, it needs ... to bring financial stakeholders and industrial players into alignment.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang gives a speech at a presentation of the new book "A Monument to China-Africa Friendship -- First Account of the Building of the Tazara", at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing

eat bitter

China’s ‘eat bitter’ business model doesn’t work in Africa

Forget debt traps, Huawei 'back-doors' and vaccine diplomacy. They might be the disputes that define our current polarised moment, but I'm willing ... to bet they won't have the staying power of the one - the original - dispute that has haunted Chinese engagement with Africa since the late 1990s: labour.

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A farmer collects a cocoa pod at a farm in Alepe

Ghana, wake up! China is exporting Cocoa to Belgium

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang gives a speech at a presentation of the new book "A Monument to China-Africa Friendship -- First Account of the Building of the Tazara", at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing

eat bitter

China’s ‘eat bitter’ business model doesn’t work in Africa

international cooperation

What’s really behind China’s cooperation with Europe in Africa?

A farmer collects a cocoa pod at a farm in Alepe

Ghana, wake up! China is exporting Cocoa to Belgium

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang gives a speech at a presentation of the new book "A Monument to China-Africa Friendship -- First Account of the Building of the Tazara", at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing

eat bitter

China’s ‘eat bitter’ business model doesn’t work in Africa

international cooperation

What’s really behind China’s cooperation with Europe in Africa?

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Ethiopia: Why hasn’t the African Union intervened in Tigray?

The war in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has entered its second phase. The first saw an attempt to eliminate the TPLF-led Tigrayan forces by ... the sheer might of the Ethiopian and Eritrean national armies.

DEAD-END NATIONALISM

How South Africa’s elites are stunting the economy and democracy

It has been 27 years since South Africa held its first democratic election achieved after centuries of political struggle. But many South Africans ... have lost interest and no longer bother to vote.

international cooperation

What’s really behind China’s cooperation with Europe in Africa?

What's in a phone call? Well, when it's from China's leader to the presidents of Germany and France then maybe it's something beyond idle ... chit-chat.

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Nigeria's former central bank governor and a governorship aspirant, Chukwuma Soludo, casts his vote in Isuofia village

bellwether state?

Nigeria: Who’s who in the race to be Governor of Anambra State

Anambra State is a bastion of Igbo intellectual and commercial life. But its politics remain twisted by the endless feuding of the Uba brothers, ... and the three major parties in the state all divided in their loyalties. Anambra will go to the polls on 6 November to decide who will be governor, and is seen by many as a bellwether for the looming presidential candidate battles ahead. In this column, Tony Ademiluyi assess the candidates chances.

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Ghana’s new census is more inclusive, but there is room for improvement

Ghana has just carried out its latest population and housing census. This is an exercise organised every ten years. ...

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no mass support

Violence in South Africa: an uprising of elites, not of the people

From time to time, South Africa is rudely reminded that its past continues to make its present and future difficult. It does not always recognise ... this reality when it sees it.

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