African Studies, International Relations, and our small world of China-Africa researchers, lost one of its towering figures on February 22. ...

Speakers: Thierry Pairault , Director Emeritus of Research, French National Centre for Scientific Research; Director, Research Center on Mod...

Photo credit: Shutterstock Recent analysis by CARI researchers on Chinese lending in Africa What we know about China’s approach to debt reli...

(revised August 20). Taiwan has been courting Somaliland, a breakaway region of the failed state of Somalia. As Wikipedia puts it , "So...

This guest post, the second of two, is by Dr. Thierry Pairault, research director at France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifiq...

This guest post, the first of two, is by Dr. Thierry Pairault, research director at France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifiqu...

On April 15, 2020, the G-20 announced a response to Covid-19's economic distress:  an unprecedented agreement to suspend official bilat...

  The Diplomat  has published  the analysis Yufan Huang and I did  of the World Bank's data on outstanding debt in the 68 low incom...

This post was co-written by  CARI's Research Manager, Kevin ACKER and  CARI's Director, Prof. Deborah BRAUTIGAM. Photo credit...

This guest post by CARI Fellow Dr. Alessandro ARDUINO, from the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, is the second of our series "Notes...

This guest post  by CARI Fellow Dr. Afa’anwi Ma’abo CHE, from Kampala International University, is t he first of our series "Notes from...

This is a guest post by Dr. Johanna Malm, independent researcher. She was previously researcher at Stellenbosch University’s Centre for Chin...

Photo credit: Deneth17 (Wikimedia Commons) Africans have been leery about Chinese loans ever since an Indian polemicist coined the term...