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China says it will grant zero-tariff treatment to imports from the 53 African countries with which it maintains diplomatic relations

China announces major push to strengthen its partnership with Africa amid US trade tension

China is boosting its ties to Africa, with zero-tariff trade and a year-long people-to-people exchange initiative, aiming to expand investment and infrastructure development…

Cooperation: Trains in Nigeria are part of China’s initiatives in Africa that includes infrastructure development.  (Emma Houston/Xinhua/AFP)

China announces major push to strengthen its partnership with Africa amid US trade tension

China is boosting its ties to Africa, with zero-tariff trade and a year-long people-to-people exchange initiative, aiming to expand investment and infrastructure development…

Malawi’s bid for modernisation

As China enters a high-tech development era, Malawi positions itself to convert strategic partnership into industrial muscle, clean energy capacity and accountable governance

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

China’s Belt and Road shifts focus to Africa with record-breaking investments

Investors are increasingly agreeing to African governments’ demands for local mineral beneficiation, driven by their need to secure access to the continent’s valuable resources

US President Joe Biden, Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron arrive to pay respects at the Mahatma Gandhi memorial at Raj Ghat on the sidelines of the G20 summit in New Delhi on September 10, 2023. Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP)

G20 summit depicted compromises and political manoeuvring

The world is becoming more multipolar, and the latest meeting of elites is testament to that

There is strong bipartisan and beneficiary support for making improvements to Agoa.

An African free trade area is in our sights

Successes and failures from other initiative such as the European Union will be instructive, but much work must be done before the African Continental Trade Area becomes a reality