China withdrawing from Africa
The number of Chinese workers in Africa hit a new low in 2022, marking a continued decline each year since peaking at nearly 264,000 workers in 2015. According to the China Africa Research Initiative at…
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China’s Debt BNI Trap: Kenya’s railway to nowhere
The first section of Kenya’s Chinese-built railway was opened with much fanfare in 2017 – but two years later work on the tracks stopped in the middle of the country and the master plan of…
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China hands a “lifeline” to Ethiopian capital’s crumbling light rail
China famously built an electrified tram network in Addis Ababa, but forgot to include its maintenance in the opaque contract. Consequently, more than half of its fleet is out of action. This problem can be…
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Ethiopia’s Chinese-built railway: only a fifth of its trains still in service seven years after its launch
Ethiopia’s Chinese-built railway creates a $60 million headache. Only eight of the line’s 41 trains are operational and the network requires a revamp that would cost more than $60 million, according to the Addis Ababa…