When Zimbabwe announced an immediate ban on the exports of all raw minerals and lithium concentrates in February, international analysts…
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A shadowy industry is thriving alongside Africa’s digital boom: mass-surveillance systems powered by artificial intelligence. As Chinese-built surveillance technology is…
A new report documents the huge scale of illegal activity by Chinese “floating fish factories” that set up off the…
Opioids and other synthetic drugs are increasingly invading parts of Africa, attracting organized crime and overwhelming countries’ medical facilities, according…
Since seven East African nations agreed to launch The Jahazi Project in September 2025, authorities have strengthened protections against illegal,…
Russia’s war in Ukraine has drained its weapons supplies, including some slated for export to Africa. China has filled this…
Chinese-owned vessels continue to threaten fisheries and livelihoods in Ghanaian waters, despite the country’s successful crackdown on transshipment at sea…
Chinese companies are present in more than one-third of all African port developments. As noted by the Africa Center for…
After two decades of loaning African nations billions of dollars for infrastructure projects, China now is focused on extracting payments,…
Nearly a decade after China’s Mawei Mining Co. Ltd. received a license to extract rare-earth minerals from a site on…