Chinese BRI Investment Announcements in Africa Rise 254% Y/y in H1 to Record $33.5bn
Private firms drove the surge as renewable energy, steel and manufacturing projects pushed African BRI announcements to a record, researchers said.
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Chinese investments in Africa soar to $34 billion so far this year
Chinese infrastructure and energy investment in Africa nearly tripled in the first half of 2026, rising to $33.5 billion — the highest half-year total on record and by far the strongest performance of any region under Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, a new report found. The surge was driven by major energy and metals projects, but also reflects manufacturers using Africa’s preferential access to US and EU markets to navigate growing trade bar…
Chinese BRI investment announcements in Africa rise 254% y/y in H1 to record $33.5bn
Africa’s surge in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) investment was driven by several unusually large renewables, green ammonia, metals-processing and manufacturing projects, particularly in Ethiopia and Egypt.
Addis Ababa, July 20, 2018 (FMC) The China-Africa Hospitals Alliance Cooperation Program will further strengthen the partnership between Ethiopia and China, said President Taye Atsek Selassie. The inauguration ceremony of the China-Africa Robotic Surgery and Endoscopic Technology Training Centers was held. President Taye said on the occasion that the China-Africa Hospitals Alliance Cooperation Program will take the long-standing and strong partn…
China–Ethiopia AI cooperation delivers life-saving weather forecasting
Two days after the Financial Times warned darkly of China’s “AI diplomacy” in the Global South, here is what that supposedly sinister campaign consists of in practice. The Xinhua News Agency reports on China–Ethiopia cooperation in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, centred on something relatively unglamorous yet genuinely life-saving: weather forecasting. The Ethiopian Meteorological Institute … Continue reading China–Ethiopia A…
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