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  • Vol 49 No 9
  • 25/04/2008

Oceanic turnaround

The thwarted voyage of the An Yue Jiang – a Chinese freighter with a cargo of ammunition, mortars, mines and artillery bound for President Robert Mugabe’s government – marks a turning point for Zimbabwe’s regional relations. It also shows how trades union...

  • Vol 49 No 5
  • 29/02/2008

Lifting the bamboo curtain

Beijing is changing its policy on Khartoum but on its own terms

  • Vol 49 No 5
  • 29/02/2008

Selective divestment

Britain’s Conservative Party, which has been campaigning against the Sudan government’s Darfur policy, faces charges of hypocrisy after it accepted more than US$800,000 in contributions from a United States’ mutual fund with massive indirect investments i...

  • Vol 48 No 22
  • 02/11/2007

Digging Belinga

Gabonese are outraged at the terms of a US$3 billion iron ore project at Bélinga and the likely damage to the country’s national parks. We hear that the recently founded Compagnie Minière de Bélinga (Comibel), jointly owned...

  • Vol 48 No 4
  • 16/02/2007

China in Chambeshi

Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to the Copperbelt was cancelled at the last minute amid reports that several hundred miners working for the Chinese-owned Non Ferrous Corporation had organised a protest. Nevertheless Hu signed a deal with the Zambi...

  • Vol 47 No 22
  • 03/11/2006

Commerce, cooperation and controversy

China's Africa policy will have a grand public outing in Beijing on 3-5 November

  • Vol 47 No 18
  • 08/09/2006

A bull in China's shop

With its threat to cut diplomatic ties with Zambia if Michael Sata, the opposition leader, wins the 28 September general elections, China has at last lost its political virginity in Africa. The remarks by Beijing's Ambassador to Lusaka, Li Baodong, ri...

  • Vol 47 No 14
  • 07/07/2006

Beijing's touring team

Trade and investment not ideology dominate the Beijing axis these days

  • Vol 47 No 14
  • 07/07/2006

Beijing's embrace

Luanda finds Beijing's courtship flattering, strengthening and, above all, lucrative

  • Vol 47 No 14
  • 07/07/2006

New Luanda's gleaming towers

Angola is planning the biggest urban project ever attempted in Africa. A mega-city south of Luanda, even larger than Brazil's inland capital of Brasilia, is to house four million people from the overcrowded capital, to which more than half of the count...

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