In June 2024, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) hospital ship Peace Ark embarked on its most ambitious endeavor from ...

Chinese rail contractors are consolidating their foothold in East Africa as part of a twin effort to improve the region's connectivity and tap into its abundant reserves of strategic minerals. Last ...

To expand its influence in Africa, China has stepped up its elite capture programs from hosting delegations and training to exporting its authoritarian model of governance.  Graduates are now emerging ...

The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...

Tanzania has emerged as a key destination for China's military cooperation, with the current exercise their fourth joint drill since 2014. "China has a long-standing relationship, particularly ...

M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have captured the eastern city of Bukavu with the backing of Rwandan forces, ...

Major defence projects in which the Chinese have been involved in Tanzania have been the construction of military barracks costing the equivalent of R$1 million at Nachingwea and a naval base at ...

The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of ...

China on Tuesday imposed targeted tariffs on American imports and put several U.S. companies, including Google, on notice for ...

China stands a good chance of taking advantage of the dwindling western presence in the Sahel region of west Africa.

With France fast losing its influence in west Africa's Sahel region and an unpredictable US president in power, will China fill the vacuum?