São Tomé and Príncipe, and Burundi Join Africa Finance Corporation Membership
November 15th, 2023
São Tomé and Príncipe, and Burundi expand Africa Finance Corporation membership to three-quarters of the continent: Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, announces Burundi and São Tomé & Príncipe as its newest member countries, expanding its community of sovereigns to 42 African nations. Despite significant macroeconomic headwinds, AFC has doubled its […]
Read more »New Airport Shows Cambodia Can Get What It Wants From China
November 13th, 2023
Via Nikkei Asia, commentary arguing that Cambodia’s new Siem Reap hub proves there is more to the BRI than debt traps: Cambodia’s newly inaugurated Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport offers an important window into how China’s Belt and Road Initiative is evolving and what it can still bring to developing countries. Last month’s Belt and Road Forum […]
Read more »Turkey’s Pivot to Central Asia
November 13th, 2023
Via Geopolitical Futures, an article on Turkey’s renewed focus on Central Asia: Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Central Asia twice. He first went to Uzbekistan to attend a summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization and then to Kazakhstan to participate in the 10th anniversary summit of the Organization of Turkic States. The […]
Read more »Chinese and Russian Firms Discuss Joint Energy Project Development
November 13th, 2023
Via Reuters, a report that Chinese and Russian energy firms are discussing jointly developing oil and gas fields: China is in talks with Russia’s Rosneft (ROSN.MM), Gazprom (GAZP.MM) and Novatek (NVTK.MM) about the joint development of oil and gas fields and hydrocarbon trade, state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) said on Wednesday. Russia is counting […]
Read more »The Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway: Indonesia’s Lessons Learned
November 13th, 2023
Via The Diplomat, an article on lessons Indonesia learned from the Jakarta-Bandung high speed railway project: It would be an understatement to say that October was a momentous month for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Beijing celebrated the initiative’s 10th anniversary by holding the third Belt and Road Forum; around the same time, its […]
Read more »Democratic Republic of Congo: ‘Future Is Bankable’
November 11th, 2023
Via The East African, commentary from Kenyan Ambassador to the DRC George Masafu about Democratic Republic of Congo’s bad history of wars and instability, but its bankable future: Summary Mafafu said DRC is a victim of its own history. But since 2018, state authority is being put in place. He said the country’s parliament is enacting […]
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