Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For two decades, China’s strategy in Africa was straightforward: shower the continent with opaque and corrupt loans to build roads ...

NAIROBI, March 19 - Kenya will on Thursday restart a multi-billion-dollar railway extension that was financed through revenue securitisation, reviving a project that has been stalled for over six ...

The African nation has a clause in its deal with Chinese lenders that could help fresh up extra cash for new projects As conflict in the Middle East pushes oil beyond US$100 per barrel, Angola and ...

Kenya on Thursday restarted a multibillion‑dollar railway extension after a six‑year hiatus, reviving a project that stalled when funding ‌from China dried up and delayed plans to link the line to ...

At the close of a year in which Africa’s underlying economic problems continue to worsen, the Johannesburg G20 summit on November 22-23 utterly failed in its mandate to cut the continent’s foreign ...

China is expanding its economic relationship with Africa while U.S. trade policy is at a turning point, notes a University of Illinois analysis.

The United States can compete more effectively with Chinese investment in Africa if it sheds its security-focused, all-or-nothing mindset. Geoeconomic policies—defined as the use of economic tools to ...

China’s role as a leading financier to developing nations has shifted over the past decade, with new loans to poorer countries falling sharply while debt repayments continue to rise, according to ...

In 1985, the American magazine Newsweek reported that the number of high-rise buildings in Shanghai, China’s biggest commercial city, could be counted on the finger tips. By 2005, 20 years later, when ...

For two decades, China’s strategy in Africa was straightforward: shower the continent with opaque and corrupt loans to build roads, ports, and power plants, securing influence and natural resources ...