- Vol 53 No 23
- 16th November 2012
China has quietly joined countries implementing sanctions against Khartoum, we hear. This may not reduce Beijing’s substantial arms exports to Khartoum but it is making life difficult for business people, Sudanese and others.
- Vol 51 No 23
- 19th November 2010
Firebrand politician Michael Sata’s anti-Chinese rhetoric is helping the opposition’s campaign ahead of next year’s elections
- Vol 50 No 23
- 20th November 2009
China has expressed interest in buying 49% stakes in 23 soon-to-expire oil block licences. The London Financial Times reported in September that the China National Offshore Oil Corporation was in talks to acquire stakes in fields with 6 billion barrels of...
- Vol 49 No 9
- 25th April 2008
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
- 29th February 2008
Beijing is changing its policy on Khartoum but on its own terms
- Vol 49 No 5
- 29th February 2008
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
- 2nd November 2007
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 by C...
- Vol 48 No 4
- 16th February 2007
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 Zambian g...
- Vol 47 No 22
- 3rd November 2006
China's Africa policy will have a grand public outing in Beijing on 3-5 November
- Vol 47 No 18
- 8th September 2006
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, rival ...