Minister of Foreign Affairs, People's Republic of China
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- SOUTH AFRICA
- JAPAN
Japanese Ambassador to South Africa
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- MALAYSIA
CEO, Petroliam Nasional Berhad
Managing Director, Tata Africa Holdings
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- CHINA
- AFRICA
The latest figures rank China as the biggest lender and investor in African infrastructure – and the continent's second biggest trading partner
China’s trade with Africa is to reach US$117 billion this year, according to an internal report by Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID). China will also be...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 12 |
- CHINA
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
East African countries have voted to abandon the EU's latest trade deals
The European Union’s Africa policy is in a shambles after the diplomatic disaster of the Economic Partnership Agreements, the multilateral trade accords which so many African states have...
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- GUINEA
- CHINA
President Conté's ministers are the latest African team to negotiate a massive minerals-for-infrastructure countertrade deal
Officials from Guinea’s Ministry of Mines are due in Beijing to negotiate a US$21 billion countertrade deal to swap bauxite and iron ore concessions for investments in dams,...
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- SOUTH KOREA
- AFRICA
Faced with its own economic crisis, Seoul remains determined to expand its economic and political ties with Africa
Seoul’s Africa summit on 27-30 October is smaller than the grand Japan-Africa, China-Africa or India-Africa events of the last five years, but it demonstrates the importance of Africa...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 12 |
- SOUTH KOREA
- AFRICA
IT cooperation centres for Cameroon and an internet backbone for Rwanda
Seoul is using its expertise in information and communications technologies (ICT) to break into Africa’s growing high-tech market. Korea Telecom has a US$38 million contract with the Rwandan...
By Dan Large, Research Director, Africa-Asia Institute, School of Oriental and Africa Studies; Professor Chris Alden, London School of Economics; and Dr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, St Peter’s College, Oxford. The three have jointly edited a volume of essays entitled ‘China Returns to Africa’ (Christopher Hurst & Co, London, August 2008).
Accelerating China-Africa trade and diplomatic relations are the dominant topic in the Africa-Asia nexus – even if India and Japan have taken the spotlight with grand African summits...