China's Involvement in Africa

Zimbabwe's neighbors are blocking a Chinese arms shipment from reaching Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's regime. But China is willing to recall the shipment rather than add another public relations challenge to its plate. [more]

Copper miners in Zambia are expected to accept a raise from the mine's Chinese owners. [more]

China is attempting to garner a greater proportion of its oil imports from Africa in order to insulate itself from the geopolitical turmoil of the Middle East. [more]

Chinese telecommunications equipment company ZTE and Libya's telecom regulator are planning to build the first-ever WiMAX wireless commercial data network in Africa. [more]

The Sudanese rebel group Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) on Dec. 11 claimed an attack on a Chinese-operated oil field [more]

A Zambian official confirmed Nov. 28 that Standard Bank's Zambia unit wants to finance two years' worth of the country's oil imports to supply diesel for use in copper production. [more]

China has rejected the threat by Darfuri rebels to harm Chinese peacekeepers in Sudan. [more]

A Chinese national was appointed Aug. 27 to lead a U.N. peacekeeping mission for the first time. [more]

Rebel groups from Sudan’s Darfur region meeting in Tanzania said Aug. 6 they have reached a... [more]

China Development Bank has sought a strategic partnership with British financial services firm... [more]

The Movement for Justice in Niger (MNJ), a majority Tuareg rebel group operating in the northern... [more]

Japan will commit more than $42 million to a project to improve and redesign parts of the Zambian... [more]

China has agreed to send some 300 engineers as part of a preparatory deployment of U.N.... [more]

An attack on a Chinese energy exploration facility in eastern Ethiopia has left nine Chinese dead... [more]

A People's Liberation Army (PLA) delegate to the Chinese National People's Congress (NPC)... [more]

Chinese President Hu Jintao begins an eight-nation tour of Africa on Jan. 30. Although Hu's... [more]

China has ramped up strategic relationships with African countries over the past two years to... [more]

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe returned to his country July 29 after a week-long visit to... [more]

SummaryChina has long had a close strategic relationship with Africa, and this relationship is... [more]

SummaryNigeria inked several cooperation agreements, including those on trade and tourism, with... [more]