Vol 4 (AAC) No 1 | CONGO-KINSHASASOUTH KOREA Hyperactive relations 18th November 2010 South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak is due in Kinshasa in early 2011 to reciprocate Congolese President Joseph Kabila’s visit to Seoul in March. This month, the Korean International...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 1 | SUDANCHINA Bullets over Darfur 18th November 2010 China has breached the United Nations arms embargo on Darfur by failing to ‘take the necessary measures to prevent the supply of arms and related materiel of all...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 1 | TANZANIAZAMBIACHINA TAZARA troubles 18th November 2010 China’s flagship African railroad project continues to lose money, and Chinese management may be brought in to avoid throwing more good money after bad. Built in the 1970s,...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 1 | GHANACHINA Best laid plans 18th November 2010 Critics of President John Atta Mills’s trade deals with China are claiming that two of the biggest financing arrangements are unlikely to go ahead as planned. These are...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 1 | CHINA Wang Min 18th November 2010 Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations China’s Deputy Permanent Representative, Wang Min, puts South-South diplomacy into action at the United Nations. Even after surpassing Japan as the world’s second-largest economy, China frequently sides with...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 1 | INDIA Ravi Ruia 18th November 2010 Co-founder and Vice-Chairman, Essar Group The Essar Group’s overseas expansion is accelerating into Africa. In April, Ravi Ruia announced that his sojourn in London would become permanent. The city became his capital-raising base:...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 12 | ZAMBIACHINA Shoot first, negotiate later 21st October 2010 Opposition politicians lambast the Lusaka government’s timidity after Chinese managers shoot Zambian mine workers Mayhem broke out on 15 October at the Collum Coal Mine in southern Zambia after Chinese owners shot workers protesting over dangerous and difficult working conditions. The workers...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 12 | GHANACHINA A consensual affair 21st October 2010 Oppositionists call for scrutiny of the promised financing from Beijing amid concerns over spiralling national debt The stratospheric figures – all in billions of dollars – emerging from President John Atta Mills’s grand tour of Asia last month suggest the love affair between Accra...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 12 | GUINEACHINA More contracts as the vote looms 21st October 2010 Despite the impending transition to civil rule, the military regime has signed a mega-contract with the China Hyway Group for housing and roads As political candidates and generals were locked in negotations about the second round of the presidential elections due by the end of October, interim President General Sékouba Konaté...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 12 | GUINEACHINA China Hyway Group’s mines-for-roads deal 21st October 2010 In return for huge investments in housing and roads, the China Hyway Group has asked for several mining permits that would give it access to at least...