Policymakers have gone to unprecedented lengths to prop up stocks struggling after the biggest sell-off in two decades.
Beijing’s relations with countries in Africa are riddled with lies and truths and everything in between. Separating myth from fact is not easy.
China’s Hanlong Group intends to take over Australian mining company Sundance early next year and gain control over a key iron ore supply in Africa.
Chinese investment in Africa is the single most important development of the previous decade for the continent.
A million Chinese people, from engineers to chefs, are leading a trade boom in Africa. <b>Xan Rice</b> hears how their lives changed after they moved.
Quick-fix economic strategies are a recipe for disaster, writes Larry Elliott.
A few steps from a market, two lanterns swung from a pagoda which promises friendship between China and Mozambique will outlast ”heaven and earth”.
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/ 12 February 2009
China, Africa’s biggest emerging market partner, will overcome the economic crisis and resume its march into mining and infrastructure investments.
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/ 8 September 2008
Lynley Donnelly investigates the reasons behind the quadrupling of the prices of commodities.
An influx of workers from China is receiving a mixed reception in Africa, where people both admire and resent the newcomers’ pursuit of wealth.
China is proving a much more effective player in Africa than South Africa, writes Lynley Donnelly.