More than a dozen African countries – including Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt – have deployed surveillance devices in recent years through cybersecurity and surveillance firms from ...

Ambassador David Shinn, former director of the U.S. Department of State’s, Office of East, Horn of Africa, and African Indians Ocean Island Affairs, highlighted China’s efforts on the continent.

President Biden and his aides do not want the nearly 50 African leaders attending the event to perceive that official U.S. interests on the continent are mainly driven by a desire to counter China.

China is a few decades ahead of the United States in its commercial diplomacy efforts on the African continent. Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) increased from $75 million in 2003 to $4.2 ...

While the harmful impacts of Chinese development projects are increasingly covered by African press and international watchdogs, they are nearly invisible in Chinese domestic media.State-run outlets ...

China’s efforts to buy influence in Africa through infrastructure and investment may not yield the returns Beijing hopes for, said Vice Adm. Jeffrey Anderson, commander of U.S. 6th Fleet and ...

More Chinese energy investments in Africa are going to renewables, report finds Solar and wind power make up 59 per cent of China’s energy projects on continent and it’s a key market for the ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged $51 billion in financing to Africa, during the summit he hosted for the continent's leaders in Beijing last week. The move comes as the U.S. scrambles to ...

Kolwezi has some of the world's largest copper and cobalt reserves and that makes it a key location at the heart of the U.S. and China's jostle for mineral supremacy on the African continent.