Eric Olander 欧瑞克·Oct 20, 2020Q&A: Liberia’s Decision to Deny Fishing Permits to 6 Chinese Super Trawlers “Sends a Powerful…After months of deliberations, Liberia’s National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA) announced last week that it would deny…
Eric Olander 欧瑞克·Oct 6, 2020Africa’s Strategic Mineral Deposits Now at the Center of an Increasingly Fraught Great Power…Iron ore, tantalum, cobalt, coltan, and a handful of other strategically important minerals and elements are at the center of an…
Eric Olander 欧瑞克·Oct 5, 2020Finding New Ways to Finance African InfrastructureKenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta looked like he had a great time in France last week. After all, the weather in Paris this time of year is…
Eric Olander 欧瑞克·Aug 6, 2020Conservation Needs to Get Back on the China-Africa AgendaChina appears to be launching a significant expansion of its distant water fishing fleet around the world and most notably in Africa.
Eric Olander 欧瑞克·Jul 10, 2020The Donkey: Africa’s Next Endangered AnimalWhen you think of endangered African animals threatened by poachers, donkeys typically do not come to mind. But the Nigerian government…
Eric Olander 欧瑞克·Jun 5, 2020Africa’s Private Debt: What to do About Those Vulture Funds Circling Overhead?It’s been almost three months since Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed issued one of the first calls for emergency debt relief for Africa…
Eric Olander 欧瑞克·May 27, 2020China to Finance & Build a Massive New Coal Power Plant in ZimbabweThe Zimbabwean government announced last month that construction of the new $3 billion Sengwa coal power plant will proceed after years of…
Eric Olander 欧瑞克·May 8, 2020Why so Many Chinese & Africans See What Happened in Guangzhou in Starkly Different WaysPerceptions over what led to the crisis in Guangzhou back in early April remain starkly divided among Chinese and African stakeholders…
Eric Olander 欧瑞克·Apr 30, 2020A Progress Report by the UN’s Vera Songwe on the Status of African Debt ReliefEconomic conditions in a number of African countries are worsening by the day. Lockdowns and a plummet in global commodity prices brought…
Eric Olander 欧瑞克·Apr 18, 2020African Leaders Declare Crisis in Guangzhou is “Sorted Out.” What Did We Learn?Less than one week after alarming videos, photos and accounts of African migrants being forced out of their homes and hotels in the…
