Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says the two countries should work together to oppose protectionism.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta takes maiden ride on latest section of Standard Gauge Railway though it will not open to freight traffic until the end of the year.

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Lusaka faces a growing debt crisis, and hopes Beijing can help refinance some of its loans so that it can secure new credit from IMF, but China ‘remains reluctant to engage in formal agreements on debt restructuring’.

Beijing is a major investor in the country’s oilfields and has contributed troops to the UN peacekeeping mission to help end a conflict that has killed tens of thousands

An initiative that sends thousands of African students to Chinese universities builds an army of influencers for Beijing on the continent while countering accusations of unscrupulous practices.

Violent Kenyan organised crime family sourced ‘precursor chemicals’ for illicit drug production from China, US court documents show.

Washington’s ‘entity list’ trade restrictions are starting to hurt sales in Africa.

Both countries are competing for influence and benefits on the continent where China is a trade juggernaut. But they want not only raw materials and markets ‘but also respect and love’, according to an analyst.

Despite international pressure to stop working with his administration over its human rights record, Beijing’s influence in the African nation only grew.

China’s top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, tells Kenya’s president that Beijing is committed to partnering with African nations through the Belt and Road Initiative.

Japanese prime minister says his administration will do all it can to encourage private investment in African countries, while also warning about excessive debt.

An international team of scientists has edged closer to saving the northern white rhino after they successfully fertilised eggs harvested from the only two surviving females of the species.

International wildlife trade watchdog is set to vote on whether to extend restrictions on their sale to cover the southern African countries that are their biggest exporters.

Beijing will be watching as leaders of African nations and international organisations gather for development summit in Yokohama later this month.

Mining giant Glencore’s plan to shut a cobalt mine in Democratic Republic of Congo and two copper mining shafts in Zambia is due to weakening demand caused in part by the tariff tit-for-tat.

Visit to Kenya and Djibouti was latest attempt to forge new ties with continent on back of Beijing’s signature infrastructure drive.

From Kenya to Ethiopia, Botswana to Cameroon, belt and road developments have seen write-offs of hundreds of millions of dollars, a situation one report says raises ‘legitimate concerns about the sustainability of China’s outbound lending’.

Critics argue that national leaders are taking a short-sighted approach by signing deals that do nothing to deter bad habits.

From Ethiopia to Namibia, countries on the continent are trying to expand their focus from natural resources to include value-added products in the drive to narrow their trading gap with the Asian giant.

Beijing has lent billions of dollars to countries on the continent to build railways, highways and airports but critics say the borrowings are unsustainable.

‘We will pick what is best for us,’ IT Minister Joseph Mucheru says

Despite the popularity of the new Nairobi-Mombasa line with travellers, critics fear it has come at a heavy price for the country as a whole.

Beijing’s efforts to cut emissions domestically coincide with coal-financing ventures overseas that include a power plant in a Kenyan town whose Unesco World Heritage status is at stake.