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To Berbera and beyond

A Chinese company is backing infrastructure projects to develop secessionist Somaliland and give Ethiopia greater access to the sea

Port and energy deals signed between a private Chinese company and the breakaway government of Somaliland should provide the region with the most important boost it has ever...


Vanishing truckers

Key suspects in a fraud case linked to Grace Mugabe have disappeared, as have Buddhist monks behind a charity project on one of her properties

Four truck drivers charged as accomplices in a trucking fraud case failed to appear in court in Harare on 25 August and warrants for their arrest were issued....

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STX's house is falling down

The list of problems for the STX housing deal grows longer as plans to fly in thousands of Asian workers divide the project’s backers. STX Group of Korea...


Fire sale

Ahead of national polls scheduled for 28 November, the Kinshasa government has decided to sell off state assets to a Hong Hong-based company for a fraction of their...


Timber company cuts corners

Smuggling is one of the biggest open secrets in Gabon’s forestry sector. Ever since the government began trying to mandate more local value-added processing of logs, the raw...


Harbour of resentment

A decision by the Namibian state-owned port operator to pre-award an estimated US$285 million contract for the Walvis Bay harbour expansion to the China Harbour Engineering Company ahead...


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  • INDIA

Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi

Managing Director, Karuturi Global, India

As the head of an established floriculture business specialising in cut flowers, Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi first expanded his company’s African interests several years ago, opening branches in Ethiopia...


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  • CHINA

Lu Xingyu

Chairman, China-Africa Project Hope

Lu Xingyu, the 24-year-old daughter of a Chinese billionaire, is at the centre of a media row after newspapers and bloggers attacked the legitimacy of the China-Africa Project...


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  • JAPAN

Koichiro Gemba

Foreign Minister, Japan

The newly appointed foreign minister faces an uphill struggle in maintaining Japan’s image as a powerhouse of the global economy. The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) government must...


Uganda to miss digital deadline

As Huawei Technologies hits trouble in Uganda, Chinese communications projects encounter legal problems from East Africa down to Southern Africa

Uganda may miss the East African Community’s deadline of December 2012 for all member states to switch from analogue to digital television. In early August, Uganda’s communications regulator sounded the...


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