US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Senegalese Foreign Minister Aissata Tall Sall in Dakar, Senegal.
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African countries should adopt measures that strategically play rivals against each other. They should implement long-term strategies and domestic policies for dealing with strategic partners.
A young man watches a Standard Gauge Railway passenger train zoom over his home in Taita Taveta county, south-eastern Kenya.
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Contrary to the government’s promises of prosperity, Kenya’s mega-railway is heading down the wrong track of development.
President Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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President Tshisekedi’s government no longer has the excuse that it’s being hampered by the dead hand of his predecessor Joseph Kabila’s cabal.
The Africa Union’s military intervention capacity can benefit hugely from the experience and capabilities of China’s People’s Liberation Army.
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The “Chinese Model” for development could be a blueprint for the modernisation and transformation of African economies.
Vendors in front of their shop in China Town, Ojota, Lagos.
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Nigeria and China should work more on the relationship between their citizens so that the two countries can continue to have good bilateral relations.
US president Joe Biden makes a foreign policy speech at the State Department in Washington, DC, on 4 February.
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At the top of President Biden’s foreign policy agenda are COVID-19 and climate change. He has also pledged to make diplomacy and multilateralism the primary means of US foreign policy.
Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari and US president Donald Trump during a press conference at the White House in 2018.
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The Trump administration’s policies affected Africa in detrimental ways.
Welcoming Senegal’s President Macky Sall at Sochi International Airport before the 2019 Russia-Africa Summit.
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A more explicit emphasis on the national interest may encourage donor countries to play ‘the long game’ in Africa.
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African policymakers should strenuously safeguard their right to choose from the widest possible range of technology options that suit their countries’ development needs.
Africans living in Guangzhou have faced discrimination amid fears of imported cases of COVID-19.
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Racism, xenophobia or insensitivity? The treatment of Africans in Guangzhou has sparked diplomatic anger.
Coverage of Chinese presence in Africa has been somewhat misleading.
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Frequently used phrases to frame discussion about Chinese capital in Africa don’t allow for the interrogation of the actual behaviour, practices and possibilities of Chinese capital.
Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden greets supporters after addressing a Super Tuesday event in Los Angeles on March 3, 2020.
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A Biden presidency would be highly likely to adopt policies that would restore the cooperative links that prevailed under Obama.
Chinese soldiers and police serve in eight UN peace missions in Africa.
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The Chinese model of peace differs fundamentally from that pursued by western nations.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (waving) with some of the heads of state who attended the first Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi, Russia.
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At the Sochi summit, African states embraced Russia’s newly established relations.
Science fiction can serve as an imaginative production of political theory.
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Science fiction writing often serves as a thought experiment that explores shared and hidden beliefs whose material and political reverberations lie further in the future.
Ethiopia’s national carrier is a key link between China and Africa.
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The aviation ambitions of several African countries are linked to Chinese investment.
Slowly, Chinese and African researchers are beginning to collaborate more.
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We wanted to investigate how the People’s Republic of China and countries in Africa work together in science and technology.
Some African journalists are concerned that foreign funders may influence what they cover and how.
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Western aid has resulted in an Anglo-American culture of journalism education which has proved impractical to implement in African countries with illiberal political regimes.
Fishing boats in Gunjur, The Gambia.
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Locals accuse a fishmeal factory of polluting their waters.
Angolan President Joao Lourenco and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Johannesburg in 2018.
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has new aspirations in Africa in pursuit of his country’s assertiveness in the global arena.