Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | ETHIOPIACHINASOMALILAND To Berbera and beyond 15th September 2011 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...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | ZIMBABWECHINA Vanishing truckers 15th September 2011 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.... READ FOR FREE
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | GHANASOUTH KOREA STX's house is falling down 15th September 2011 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...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | CONGO-KINSHASASOUTH KOREA Fire sale 15th September 2011 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...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | GABONCHINA Timber company cuts corners 15th September 2011 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...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | NAMIBIACHINAJAPAN Harbour of resentment 15th September 2011 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...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | INDIA Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi 15th September 2011 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...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | CHINA Lu Xingyu 15th September 2011 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...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | JAPAN Koichiro Gemba 15th September 2011 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...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 10 | CHINAAFRICATELECOMS Uganda to miss digital deadline 31st August 2011 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...