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Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, stands out as the largest market for Chinese surveillance equipment. Under the “safe city” project, China provides surveillance technologies and credit lines that governments use to monitor public spaces and curb crime. Photo: Getty
China-Africa relations

Chinese surveillance rolled out in Africa: ZTE, Hikvision, Huawei at the helm

China’s ‘safe city’ project can counter terrorism and curb crime but critics worry it may repress political opposition and peaceful protests.

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Banking & finance

Opinion | From the US to Hong Kong, there’s no excuse for insider trading

US, Israel war on Iran

Iran war delivers new stress to African economies emerging from older shocks

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Chinese offshore investment

China’s multibillion-dollar minerals investment lifts foreign economies: report

Country has invested more than US$120 billion in overseas mining and mineral processing projects since 2023, study says.

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The Prospect Lithium Zimbabwe plant in Goromonzi, Zimbabwe, is run by China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt. Photo: EPA-EFE
China-Africa relations

China’s supply chain meets the wall of African resource nationalism

As resource-rich nations introduce export bans and other limits, analyst says investment may not automatically follow.

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Hong Kong transport

Hongkong Post’s airmail services to 24 countries affected by strikes in Middle East

Public postal service suspends airmail to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, affecting ‘services transiting through these locations’.

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China-Africa relations

China helps Zimbabwe grow US$1.2 billion tobacco crop amid debt, health concerns

As Zimbabwe’s largest agricultural export and a primary foreign currency earner, tobacco dominates its trade with Beijing.

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Tobacco is Zimbabwe’s largest agricultural export and a primary foreign currency earner, dominating its trade with Beijing. Last season, it produced 352.7 million kilograms of tobacco. Photo: Getty Images
South Africa

Mugabe’s son Bellarmine arrested after gardener shot in South Africa

Former Zimbabwean ruler Robert Mugabe’s youngest son sometimes lives in Johannesburg, where he has a reputation for partying.

Natural disasters

Over 100 dead in torrential rains and floods across southern Africa

Thousands have been forced to evacuate in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe, with helicopters plucking people to safety.

China-Africa relations

‘Concrete symbols’: China-built Ecowas HQ latest infrastructure gift to Africa

Beijing’s strategy to project influence through gifting prestigious presidential palaces and parliamentary buildings labelled ‘unique’.

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Chinese ambassador to Nigeria Yu Dunhai with Dr Omar Touray, president of the Ecowas Commission, in Abuja on December 4. Du visited the US$32 million China-built Ecowas headquarters in the Nigerian capital. Photo: X/YDunhai
My Life

T-shirts, TV fame and now a village art takeover: Dominic Johnson-Hill’s wild ride

The entrepreneur behind irreverent brand Plastered 8 talks about serendipity, celebrity, and leaving his colourful mark on Hong Kong.

Dominic Johnson-Hill in front of a mural featuring a yellow-browed warbler in Mui Wo, Lantau Island. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Norway

Venezuela closes embassy in Norway after Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuela says embassy closure was part of a restructuring of its foreign service - a move Norway called ‘regrettable’.

Africa

42 dead in South Africa bus crash on notorious highway

The crash is the second mass-casualty incident in Limpopo this year. Last year, 45 people were killed on the same dangerous highway.

China-Africa relations

China and Zimbabwe: from liberation struggle to ‘ironclad’ friendship

Emmerson Mnangagwa was one of only two African leaders at China’s military parade this month, highlighting close ties between the nations.

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Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa arrives in Beijing on September 1, ahead of a military parade marking 80 years since the end of World War II. Photo: Xinhua
SCO

Xi’s diplomatic blitz casts new light on China’s foreign policy

Chinese president’s meetings this week with several key leaders highlight Beijing’s shifting overseas priorities.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin this week. Erdogan was one of several leaders Xi met during bilateral talks over the week. Photo: Handout/Turkish Presidential Service/ AFP
Middle East

Qatar joins Gulf neighbours in African funding game with US$103 billion pledge

Al-Mansour Holdings is looking to tap into six resource-rich sub-Saharan countries for minerals, oil and gas.

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Hong Kong society

Hong Kong’s annual Food Expo, co-events to attract 50 extra vendors this year

Trade Development Council, events’ organiser, says about 1,890 exhibitors to join five fairs, including more than 700 for Food Expo.

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Africa

Trophy hunter kills collared lion in Zimbabwe, sparking outrage

Research lion Blondie was killed after it was lured out of a protected area - but a Zimbabwe official called it legal.

Cecil the lion’s killing in 2015 unleashed furious anger against Walter Palmer, a Minnesota dentist and trophy hunter. File photo: TNS
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.

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Animals

Zimbabwe to cull elephants and distribute meat to people

The move seeks to ease the ballooning population of the animals – the African nation has the second most elephants in the world.

China-Africa relations

China hosts delegation of 100 African military officers to strengthen ties

Young and mid-career African officers from 40 countries will be trained in PLA basics, China’s military system and technology models.

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The young and mid-career African military officers are in China to visit top military academies around the country. Photo: The National University of Defence Technology
IOC

Kirsty Coventry elected IOC president: first woman, African to land role

Coventry, the Zimbabwean sports minister, is a close ally of German Thomas Bach, who steps down as IOC chief after 12 years.

Kirsty Coventry reacts after being elected the next president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in Costa Navarino, Greece on Thursday. Photo: AFP
China-Africa relations

China still leads the pack in Africa’s critical minerals race as US falls behind

Beijing has spent years – and billions – investing in Africa’s mining sector, and it is now paying off, experts say.

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Obituaries

Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s fiery freedom fighter and first president, dies at 95

Nujoma built ties with China, North Korea, Cuba, Russia - some of which had supported his liberation movement by providing arms and training.

Africa

Trump claims South Africa ‘treating certain classes of people’ badly, cuts funds

The US president has surrounded himself with powerful Silicon Valley figures who came of age in apartheid-era southern Africa.

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A supporter waves a South African flag during a cricket match between South Africa and Pakistan in Cape Town last month. Photo: AFP
Tourism

The thrill of tracking rhinos in Zimbabwe’s oldest national park

Travellers to Matobo National Park in southern Africa can get close to rhinos and enjoy beautiful views from a Unesco World Heritage site.

Two southern white rhinoceros graze in Matobo National Park, in Zimbabwe. The population of these rhinos has stabilised in Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, eSwatini, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Photo: Shutterstock
Africa

‘Miracle’ Zimbabwe boy, 7, wanders for 5 days through animal-filled park

Tinashe Farawo roamed through Matusadona Park where wild animals – including lions, elephants and rhinos – live.

Africa

Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty almost 20 years after its last hanging

New law will commute to jail time the sentences of about 60 prisoners on death row.

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