Vol 6 (AAC) No 7 | GHANACHINA Crackdown on illegal miners 2nd May 2013 Gun battles, environmental degradation and tensions with local communities force the government to take a tough stance on illegal Chinese miners The Ghana Immigration Service is to tighten up security at the country’s borders to stop the illegal entry of Chinese artisanal and small-scale miners (ASMs). Police Commissioner Peter...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 7 | GHANACHINA Sinopec strike 2nd May 2013 Sinopec, the lead contractor on Ghana’s US$850 million gas project, halted work on 30 April citing payment delays and disputes with Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC).
Vol 6 (AAC) No 7 | CHINAAFRICA Lu’s broadside at Western policy 2nd May 2013 China’s top Africa policymaker, Lu Shaye, took to the pages of the officially sanctioned China International Studies in March to slam the interventions by Western governments in Central...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 7 | SOUTH SUDANCHINA Financing deals finally take off 2nd May 2013 More eye-catching Chinese loans to South Sudan hit the headlines in April, as did more uncertainty about what exactly has been agreed. A year to the day since...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 7 | UGANDACHINA One-horse race 2nd May 2013 The government cancelled the bidding for Uganda’s biggest hydropower project, the Karuma Falls Dam, pending a procurement review, after the selected bidder lied to the Ministry of Energy.
Vol 6 (AAC) No 7 | GABONINDIASINGAPORE Middleman at the gate 2nd May 2013 On 26 April at the Libreville headquarters of Oil India Limited, Paul Maurice Tomo lay shirtless on the ground in front of a painted sheet that read:...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 7 | INDIA Salman Khurshid 2nd May 2013 External Affairs Minister, India Salman Khurshid, Minister of External Affairs, was in Uganda on 17-18 April, on his first official visit to Africa. Ahead of the third India-Africa summit due in...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 7 | CHINA Jin-Yong Cai 2nd May 2013 Chief Executive, International Finance Corporation Jin-Yong Cai, Executive Vice-President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Finance Corporation, wants the IFC to source more private-sector funding for infrastructure projects in sub-Saharan Africa.
Vol 6 (AAC) No 6 | CHINAAFRICA Criticism mounts but the deals keep coming 4th April 2013 New Chinese President Xi Jinping travelled to the BRICS summit in Durban, South Africa, via Tanzania, one of Beijing’s closest partners on the continent. His consistent message was...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 6 | SUDANSOUTH SUDANCHINA Triangular relations 4th April 2013 China may be a weapon which Khartoum and Juba use in their conflicts but oil interests lock all three parties into a triangular relationship On 15 March, President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir sent a message of congratulations to China’s new President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang, who officially assumed...