China

13 October 2020

New Chinese Ambasador Arrives in Guinea-Bissau

The new Chinese ambassador to Guinea-Bissau, Guo Ce, delivered on Monday his credential letters to the country´s President, Umaro Sissoco Embaló.

12 October 2020

Analysis: China and Africa in the Age of Covid-19

Yes, the new age of China-Africa relations will be made of painstaking debt talks. But China´s capital in Africa - both financial and diplomatic - is unrivaled.

20 August 2020

Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery Hard for Brazil – Study

Brazil is one of the Group of 20 major economies (G-20), facing a more difficult economic recovery, according to Verisk Maplecroft’s Recovery Capacity Index.

The newly-released index measures more than a dozen factors which either underpin or undermine a recovery from a crisis,

13 August 2020

Economic Commission for Africa Urges China to Support Debt Relief

The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is urging China to participate in the G20 Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI), so African governments have fiscal space to effectively respond to the COVID-19 emergency.

21 May 2020

Project Supported by China to Bring Digital Satellite TV to 20,000 families in Mozambique

The Government of Mozambique announced the conclusion of a project to bring digital satellite television signal to 1,000 villages in the in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, which is estimated to benefit over 20,000 families. Covering all the ten provinces and the capital city of Mozambique, the project was co-funded by China and implemented by the Chinese electronics and media company StarTimes.

20 May 2020

China Aiming to Strengthen “Strategic Ties” to Angola

Gong Tao, ambassador of China to Angola, is confident debt negotiations between the two countries will be successful, and that bilateral relations will actually emerge stronger from the current hardship. In an interview published in Angola, marking his first year as ambassador, he reveals the foreign ministers of the two countries spoke on the phone on 11 May, and vowed to strengthen “strategic ties”.