Vol 1 (AAC) No 12 |
- CHINA
- AFRICA
The latest figures rank China as the biggest lender and investor in African infrastructure – and the continent's second biggest trading partner
China’s trade with Africa is to reach US$117 billion this year, according to an internal report by Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID). China will also be th...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 12 |
- CHINA
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
East African countries have voted to abandon the EU's latest trade deals
The European Union’s Africa policy is in a shambles after the diplomatic disaster of the Economic Partnership Agreements, the multilateral trade accords which so many African state...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 12 |
- GUINEA
- CHINA
President Conté's ministers are the latest African team to negotiate a massive minerals-for-infrastructure countertrade deal
Officials from Guinea’s Ministry of Mines are due in Beijing to negotiate a US$21 billion countertrade deal to swap bauxite and iron ore concessions for investments in dams, roads,...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 12 |
- SOUTH KOREA
- AFRICA
Faced with its own economic crisis, Seoul remains determined to expand its economic and political ties with Africa
Seoul’s Africa summit on 27-30 October is smaller than the grand Japan-Africa, China-Africa or India-Africa events of the last five years, but it demonstrates the importance of Afr...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 12 |
- SOUTH KOREA
- AFRICA
IT cooperation centres for Cameroon and an internet backbone for Rwanda
Seoul is using its expertise in information and communications technologies (ICT) to break into Africa’s growing high-tech market. Korea Telecom has a US$38 million contract with t...
By Dan Large, Research Director, Africa-Asia Institute, School of Oriental and Africa Studies; Professor Chris Alden, London School of Economics; and Dr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, St Peter’s College, Oxford. The three have jointly edited a volume of essays entitled ‘China Returns to Africa’ (Christopher Hurst & Co, London, August 2008).
Accelerating China-Africa trade and diplomatic relations are the dominant topic in the Africa-Asia nexus – even if India and Japan have taken the spotlight with grand African summi...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 12 |
- SOMALIA
- INDIA
The deployment against the pirates will entail an upgrade of India's fleet and the overcoming of legal obstacles
India’s navy hosted its first Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) in Delhi in February to promote cooperation amongst 26 states in the region. Its aim was to foster cooperation, es...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 12 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
- INDIA
South Africa's MTN is eyeing India's Aircel with its 13 million subscribers in 10 of India's 12 telecom circles
South African companies are pushing into India’s markets. So far, the traffic has been one-way with Indian manufacturing companies such as Tata, Mahindra and Mahindra, and pharmac...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 12 |
- ZAMBIA
- CHINA
- EUROPE
Local contractors' frustration with the Chinese success story is growing
After a spate of high-profile contract awards, local contractors are accusing their Chinese competitors of using political influence and state subsidies from Beijing to dominate Za...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 3 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
- INDIA
India’s diamond industry looks to African independent producers as supplies from diamond giant De Beers dry up
Indian diamond traders are being forced to import rough diamonds directly from overseas suppliers after South Africa-based De Beers, the world’s largest supplier, recently sl...