Vol 5 (AAC) No 6 | INDIAAFRICABRIEFING Competition for clusters 28th March 2012 The African Union will determine which African countries will host India’s two new industrial clusters, which will be backed by billions of dollars in investment from the New...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 6 | NIGERCHINABRIEFING Pressure at the pumps 28th March 2012 President Mahamadou Issoufou is under pressure to reduce petrol prices at the pump. On 23 March, the Syndicat National des Travailleurs du Commerce (Syntracom)warned that unless the government...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 6 | TANZANIACHINABRIEFING Air Tanzania soars no more 28th March 2012 The former Chief Executive Officer of troubled Air Tanzania Corporation Limited, David Mattaka, and two others appeared in court on 21 March to answer charges of abuse of...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 6 | SINGAPORE Zainul Abidin Rasheed 28th March 2012 Deputy Chairman, OM Holdings, Singapore The Singapore Business Federation’s African overtures continue. A delegation from SBF’s Africa Business Group was in Congo-Kinshasa and Congo-Brazzaville from 26 February to 4 March to examine investment...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 6 | JAPAN Masami Iijima 28th March 2012 CEO and President, Mitsui & Co., Japan Mitsui & Co., Japan’s second-largest trading company, is launching a global hunt for copper and coal assets with a war chest of US$17 billion.
Vol 5 (AAC) No 6 | INDIA Vilasrao Deshmukh 28th March 2012 Science and Technology Minister, India On 1-2 March, the first India-Africa Science and Technology Ministerial Conference was held in Delhi. The host was Vilasrao Deshmukh, who unveiled an array of new fellowships, exchanges...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 5 | ZAMBIACHINA Lusaka welcomes Asia, again 28th February 2012 President Michael Sata tries to balance Chinese investors’ interests and his populist policies The former scourge of Chinese investors, President Michael Chilufya Sata, has reshuffled his Patriotic Front government to placate Asian and other investors and to streamline economic policy. On...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 5 | ZAMBIACHINA Winners and losers in the contract rush 28th February 2012 Chinese investment in Zambia continues to boom under President Michael Sata’s Patriotic Front government, despite the rhetoric of his unruly ministers.
Vol 5 (AAC) No 5 | CHINAAFRICA Beijing resets its Africa policy amid economic success 28th February 2012 Hit by wars, piracy and corruption claims, Chinese companies adapt to Africa’s fast-changing politics Hostage-taking, festering regional disputes and rising domestic criticism are all complicating the politics of Beijing’s Africa policy.
Vol 5 (AAC) No 5 | CHINAAFRICA New pressure on Beijing 28th February 2012 China is caught in the escalating fight over oil revenues between Sudan and South Sudan. Its newest African partner, President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s government in Juba, has asserted...