Chinese telecommunication firm Huawei on Thursday signed an agreement with SlumCode Group, an organization founded by youths to help them have access to information and digital literacy, to invest in skills transfer for youths in Kenya’s slums. The collaboration seeks to empower the youth and create a platform where they can explore their options and learn how to integrate ICT into their business to make it more efficient and create [...]

China’s Foreign Ministry asks mine workers to adhere to local laws China’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday called on all Chinese citizens in Ghana to abide by local laws, after 124 Chinese workers allegedly involved in illegal mining were detained this week in Accra, the West African country’s capital. Shanglin’s mining tradition Shanglin, a State-level impoverished county in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, contributes around 90 percent of the Chinese miners in [...]

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) on Wednesday said 124 suspected Chinese illegal miners had been detained in Accra, the capital of the West African country. Francis Palmdeti, head of public affairs of the GIS, told Xinhua that the Chinese were involved in illegal gold mining in the central region of Ashanti, as well as in western and eastern regions. Representatives from the Chinese embassy in Ghana visited the detention house [...]

China’s top auditing agency said on Wednesday that 5.02 billion yuan ($815 million) has been used improperly in projects funded through foreign aid and loans. The National Audit Office (NAO) announced the results in its annual report on foreign loans and aid projects in 2011, surveying 94 projects involving 27.57 billion yuan in foreign funds. The general situation is good, although some problems remain, the report noted. It found that [...]

Chinese gold miners hiding in forests to escape a Ghanaian military manhunt asked for help with their retreat on Thursday, after a harsh crackdown on illegal miners that has seen 124 Chinese detained so far. Yu Jie, a spokesperson from the Chinese embassy in the West African nation, told the Global Times that teams have been sent to those cities where Chinese miners are concentrated to negotiate with local authorities [...]

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) on Wednesday disclosed that 124 suspected Chinese illegal miners were detained in Accra, the capital of the West African country. Francis Palmdeti, the head of public affairs of the GIS, told Xinhua in a telephonic interview that the Chinese arrestees were involved in illegal gold mining in the central region of Ashanti, as well as in western and eastern regions. Some of them have overstayed [...]

Authorities of Shanglin county in Southwest China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region have urged a halt to locals going to the Republic of Ghana for gold mining, following Wednesday’s arrest of 124 Chinese miners in the African country. A number of Shanglin natives were among those arrested on charges of illegal mining by Ghanaian authorities. A statement from the Shanglin government quoted an unnamed spokesman as saying that the “gold rush” [...]

The Chinese Embassy in Ghana has lodged representations to the West African country over the detention of 124 Chinese nationals, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on Thursday. At a daily news briefing, Hong said that the ministry and the embassy attached great importance to the matter, referring to Ghana’s detention of the Chinese citizens in a crackdown on illegal gold mining. The embassy has immediately lodged representations to high-ranking [...]

National Audit Office reports discovers problems with 58 of the 94 projects it examined The National Audit Office said more than 5 billion yuan has been misused in projects partly funded by foreign aid and loans. The figure included the equivalent of nearly 47 million yuan in foreign capital. It made the announcement on June 5, based on auditing the financial reports for 2011 of 94 projects managed by central [...]

Japan has been adopting dollar diplomacy since the Abe administration took office in late December. The country has been busy announcing development aid programs for Myanmar, India and Africa. When the fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development opened in Yokohama on Saturday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged that his country’s aid to Africa in the five years through 2017 will total 3.2 trillion yen ($31.8 billion). Japan also [...]