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  • Vol 47 No 14
  •  7th July 2006

Beijing's embrace

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

  • Vol 47 No 14
  •  7th July 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 country'...

  • Vol 47 No 10
  •  12th May 2006

Who makes the shirts?

China's booming exports cause political problems for Mbeki's ruling alliance

  • Vol 47 No 3
  •  3rd February 2006

Confucius, he say

On 12 January, China issued a paper on its African policy. This raises more questions than it answers, as it reads less like a policy paper than a public relations exercise designed to flatter African leaders. China is also trying to woo the African publi...

  • Vol 46 No 3
  •  4th February 2005

Chinese firecrackers

A row over corruption plans linked to China's US$2 billion oil-backed credit line threatens the position of Finance Minister José Pedro de Morais and major diplomatic embarrassment for Beijing.

  • Vol 44 No 4
  •  21st February 2003

A long march

China's decision last week to send 220 peacekeeping troops to the beleaguered Mission de l'Organisation des Nations Unies en République Démocratique du Congo (MONUC) has been welcomed at a time when international military personnel are at a ...

  • Vol 41 No 10
  •  12th May 2000

East of Suez

Cairo is allowing a shipping company reportedly owned by the Chinese military to use ports on the Suez Canal. The 7 May agreement was reached after years of negotiation, according to Egypt's highly official Middle East News Agency.

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