Vol 5 (AAC) No 5 | MALAWICHINA Too much competition 28th February 2012 A group of 33 Malawian merchants in Karonga has petitioned the government to oust the Chinese nationals whose businesses, the traders complain, are increasing competition in the northern...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 5 | CHADCHINABRIEFING Cementing ambitions 28th February 2012 President Idriss Déby Itno inaugurated a new cement factory at Baoré in Mayo-Kebbi on 16 February. Chad’s first cement plant was built by China CAMC Engineering Company, thanks...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 5 | DJIBOUTIETHIOPIACHINAINDIABRIEFING The railway’s coming 28th February 2012 Work will begin soon on the long-awaited new Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway. The two governments and their Chinese contractors are creating a US$1.5-billion trade corridor from Addis Ababa to the Djibouti...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 5 | GUINEA BISSAUCHINABRIEFING Containers of corruption 28th February 2012 The government of West Africa’s leading narco-state remains tight-lipped about a corruption case involving three officials of the Energy and Natural Resources Ministry who were arrested in November 2011...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 5 | LIBERIAJAPANBRIEFING Boardroom row over Tokyo’s oil grant 28th February 2012 A war of words has broken out between Negbalee Warner, Chairman of the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company, and his Managing Director, T. Nelson Williams. At issue is a US$25 million...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 5 | CHINA Wang Shenyang 28th February 2012 Director, Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation, Commerce Ministry, China Wang Shenyang led a group to Libya in February to review the remains of Chinese projects and determine what could be salvaged. Chinese companies had some US$20 billion in housing, railway...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 5 | INDIA M.D. Mallya 28th February 2012 Chairman, Bank of Baroda, India With healthy overseas profits, Bank of Baroda is looking to Africa as a ‘centre of growth’, according to Chairman M.D. Mallya. The state-owned bank plans to expand operations in Botswana,...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 5 | CHINA Sun Yusheng 28th February 2012 Vice-President, China Central Television In January, China’s state broadcaster CCTV opened a studio in Nairobi, Kenya, taking the ‘win-win’ relationship to the airwaves. CCTV Vice-President Sun Yusheng, a man with solid journalistic...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 4 | SUDANSOUTH SUDANCHINA Workers safe but oil at risk 10th February 2012 Oil rows and workers caught in the crossfire force Beijing to develop political and military tools to accompany its ever-growing economic muscle Sudan and South Sudan are dragging a reluctant China into their smouldering relations at a time when both sides say the situation is on the brink of open...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 4 | SUDANSOUTH SUDANCHINA Oil flows eastward 10th February 2012 Tension in Sudan and South Sudan boosts the Kenyan backers of the Lamu port and corridor projects. South Sudanese officials had already been in talks to join their...