Organisations from Kenya and Ethiopia have signed up to the China-led space initiative to build a lunar base.

Use of resources to repay loans is a popular model for China, but critics warn these deals are unfair and ‘mortgage the future of countries’.

Amid a new Chinese appetite for avocados, South Africa will become the third African nation to export the fruit.

After pausing them during the pandemic, Beijing’s growing military diplomacy is seeing more frequent port visits.

Rwandan envoy James Kimonyo says both the US and China are his country’s friends and tensions between the two should be settled systematically.

Chinese workers are building a railway in the Sahara Desert, in China’s latest step in diversifying its iron ore supply.

Earnings by Chinese firms from construction works in Africa have dropped by 31 per cent since 2015. Experts say this is the ‘new normal’.

Forum hosted by China’s internet watchdog urges Beijing and African countries to work with UN to establish artificial intelligence governing institution and calls for bigger role for developing countries in regulating the technology.

The government is concerned about how the platform owned by Chinese firm ByteDance is complying with Kenya’s data protection and privacy laws and may ban public officials from using it.

Beijing positions itself to grow its oil and mining interests after a major diplomatic shift in the African nation.

Chinese companies will build two new sporting arenas in Africa, continuing Beijing’s tradition of ‘stadium diplomacy’ for influence-building.

Following decades of the ‘Angola model’ – oil-backed loans to access Chinese funding for infrastructure – Beijing vows to help modernise Angola.

Technology transfers have always been officially part of China’s belt and road plan, but analysts say those types of exchanges are being increasingly prioritised as Beijing bids to boost ties.

Beijing is a reliable friend and sincere partner for countries in Africa, Xi Jinping tells visiting Angolan President Joao Lourenco.

In a bid to break its reliance on Australia and Brazil for iron ore, China is diversifying further afield.

IMF report says that between 2015 and 2021, the total number of Chinese workers in African countries fell by 64 per cent.

A flurry of construction in Africa by Chinese mining companies has seen lithium exports double.

Models imposed from outside have brought neither ‘stability nor prosperity’ to African countries, foreign minister tells ‘two sessions’ press conference.

You may not have heard of Chinese firm Transsion – but it is currently dominating the mobile phone market in Africa and the Middle East with three brands that have never been sold in China.

As the Chinese leader met President Bio in Beijing, the pair pledged to ‘safeguard’ African interests on the global stage.

Debuting at Berlin 2024, Black Tea, the first film about Africans in China made by an African filmmaker, exhibits a tone-deaf understanding of what the diaspora’s experience is like in the country.

Houthi militants have launched attacks in the Red Sea shipping lanes, increasing costs and disrupting production for Chinese firms in East Africa.

Chinese demand for the hides accounts for the slaughter of more than 5 million animals each year, many from Africa.

The timing of the trips has remained consistent but their purpose has shifted since Qian Qichen started the convention in 1991.