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President Bola Tinubu

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President Bola Tinubu

Chinese state-owned firms have broken ground on a 233km, US$1.3 billion highway in Kenya. Its leadership says the PPP model will solve Kenya’s infrastructure funding challenges amid its debt overhang. Photo: Reuters

China-Africa relations

Why Chinese firms are taking operational risks on African projects

Public-private partnerships or PPP model for African infrastructure tipped to grow as ‘bankable’ projects can attract global finance.

8 Dec 2025 - 12:00PMvideocam

United Nations

Nigeria’s government secures release of 100 kidnapped schoolchildren

8 Dec 2025 - 2:33PM

Africa

Nigeria declares national emergency after mass kidnappings

27 Nov 2025 - 12:58PM

Africa

Dozens kidnapped from Catholic school in Nigeria escape captors

Hundreds of children and staff remain held by gunmen amid a spate of school attacks in the West African country.

24 Nov 2025 - 1:46PM

A classroom at St Mary’s school, where gunmen abducted more than 300 students and staff. Photo: AFP

Africa

315 kidnapped in Nigeria school attacks as security crisis deepens

Gunmen attacked a school in Niger state on Friday after abducting 25 girls from a Kebbi state secondary school on Monday.

23 Nov 2025 - 10:22AM

Africa

Gunmen kidnap students from Nigerian Catholic school, second attack in a week

The attacks come weeks after US President Trump threatened military action over what he said were targeted killings of Nigeria’s Christians.

21 Nov 2025 - 6:33PM

Africa

1 girl escapes Nigeria mass abduction of 25 students from a high school

The student fled through a forest after gunmen attacked a high school dormitory.

18 Nov 2025 - 7:50PM

A general view of the school from which school children were kidnapped by gunmen in Kebbi, Nigeria on Monday. Photo: AP

Africa

Gunmen kidnap 25 schoolgirls in Nigeria region grappling with banditry

The early morning raid came a decade after the Chibok abduction that sparked the global #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

18 Nov 2025 - 4:07PM

Africa

Trump’s threat of US military action clashes with Nigeria’s reality

Nigeria’s president denies his country is religiously intolerant after Trump claimed Christians are being killed in ‘large numbers’.

4 Nov 2025 - 4:32PM

Africa

Nigeria urges meeting with Trump after US president’s military action threat

Trump had said he was designating Nigeria a ‘country of particular concern’ because of worries about the safety of Christians there.

3 Nov 2025 - 1:25AM

Donald Trump

Trump threatens military action in Nigeria over ‘killing of Christians’

Nigeria’s leader Bola Ahmed earlier pushed back against the US president’s claim that his country’s Christians face an ‘existential threat’.

2 Nov 2025 - 10:56AM

US President Donald Trump disembarks from Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Thursday. Photo: Reuters

Trade

Opinion | Africa is where Hong Kong’s ‘go global’ campaign should begin

The new GoGlobal Task Force should spur efforts to tap opportunities in emerging markets. Africa, where China already has a considerable presence, is a natural choice.

28 Oct 2025 - 11:16AM

Africa

World’s oldest president, 92, could extend rule as Cameroon heads to polls

Paul Biya, who spends most of his time in Europe, came to power in the Central African country in 1982 and has ruled since then.

12 Oct 2025 - 8:34PM

China-Africa relations

China’s ‘health silk road’ in Africa gets a boost with insulin, pharma projects

Move to manufacture insulin locally is set against forecast of nearly 55 million Type 2 diabetes cases in sub-Saharan Africa by 2045.

11 Oct 2025 - 2:00PMvideocam

Nigeria is expected to produce insulin and HIV drugs in partnership with Chinese firms, while the Ivory Coast will similarly make antimalarial drugs and antibiotics. Photo: Shutterstock

US-China trade war

Trump team presses unlikely buyers to snap up US soybeans

Since China stopped buying US soybeans, Donald Trump is pushing countries like India to boost purchases while weighing a multi-billion-dollar farm bailout.

7 Oct 2025 - 4:03AMvideocam

A farmer handles soybeans from a field in the US state of Indiana. Photo: AP

China exports

China’s cleantech creating ‘new global energy system’ as exports soar: report

Demand for clean technology is ‘skyrocketing’, especially in Global South, as China drives creation of cheaper solutions, report says.

6 Oct 2025 - 3:30PM

China-Africa relations

China targets Gen Z, millennials in new strategy to build its brand in Africa

Kenyan social media stars showcase China’s striking scenery, culture, history and cuisine in glitzy new promotional campaign.

5 Oct 2025 - 6:50PMvideocam

Indonesia

Netherlands to return ‘Java Man’ fossils to Indonesia in historic move

The move will see the skull cap and other remains of the first-ever Homo erectus found returned, after they were looted during Dutch colonial era.

26 Sep 2025 - 6:17PM

Original fossils of Pithecanthropus erectus (now Homo erectus) found in Java in 1891.The find is commonly referred to as Java Man. Photo: Handout

China-Africa relations

Chinese solar panels rewire Africa for the future at record pace as costs fall

Some countries have seen panel imports more than quadruple year-on-year, study shows.

25 Sep 2025 - 10:00AMvideocam

China-Africa relations

A new model for peace? China takes its Global Security Initiative to Africa

From Somalia to Ethiopia, Chinese training scholarships are the start of an alternative to Western-led alliances.

30 Aug 2025 - 6:42PMvideocam

Japan

Backlash in Japan after symbolic Africa ties misread as mass migration plan

Angry residents have bombarded city halls with calls and emails, fearing their hometowns were being ‘given away’ to African migrants.

28 Aug 2025 - 8:00AM

A worker at a sawmill in Nigeria. The country’s government had incorrectly claimed that Japan was creating a special visa category for young Nigerian blue-collar workers. Photo: Reuters

Africa

‘Bandits’ kidnap more than 50 in Nigeria amid sectarian violence

Nigeria’s ‘banditry’ crisis originated in conflict over land and water rights between herders and farmers but has morphed into organised crime.

3 Aug 2025 - 7:50PM

A Nigerian soldier from the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) fighting jihadist insurgents, during training in Monguno, Borno state, Nigeria, on July 5. Photo: AFP

China-Africa relations

China-built satellite station a ‘shining’ example of support for Namibia

China backs Africa’s growing space industry by funding and building a data receiving ground station in Namibian capital.

2 Aug 2025 - 8:00PMvideocam

China-Africa relations

China looks to Africa as testing ground for global roll-out of yuan

A growing list of African nations have made deals to explore or implement use of the Chinese currency for trade and financial transactions.

16 Jul 2025 - 7:00PMvideocam

Obituaries

Nigeria’s former president Muhammadu Buhari, 82, dies in London

Buhari first led Nigeria as a military ruler after a coup in 1983. He is expected to be buried in his home state of Katsina, officials said.

14 Jul 2025 - 5:31AM

Nigeria’s former president Muhammadu Buhari in Lagos in 2023. Buhari died on Sunday aged 82. Photo: AFP

Pakistan

48 Chinese among 149 arrested in Pakistan scam centre raid

Citizens from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar were also arrested for allegedly running Ponzi schemes and collecting money illegally from the public.

10 Jul 2025 - 4:50PMvideocam

A Pakistani police raid uncovered a scam call centre in Faisalabad, arresting 149, including 71 foreigners. Photo: Shutterstock

China-Africa relations

Chinese nationals in Africa ‘vulnerable to kidnappings’ as cases rise

Analysts say there’s a perception that Chinese prefer to operate outside the formal banking system and that they carry large sums of cash.

10 Jul 2025 - 12:00PMvideocam

China-Africa relations

Opinion | Africa could emerge a winner from China’s war-induced energy shift

China’s transition to renewables could see African nations benefit as long as public-private partnerships help unlock potential gains.

30 Jun 2025 - 7:06AMvideocam

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