The China-AU strategic dialogue promises co-ordinated development governance. Yet its clearest output to date is a single building, not a shared decision-making system.
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From Pledge to Practice: FOCAC’s 2025 Scorecard Shows the Work Behind the Promises
Nine months after Beijing’s summit, a coordinators’ meeting in Hunan put numbers to the follow-through – 35 outcomes across ten sectors.
Beijing 2024: China Reframes Africa Ties as a Shared Modernization Project
A summit that once led with infrastructure now leads with a word: modernization. The pledge is RMB 360 billion – about US$50 billion – and a smaller-is-better posture.
FOCAC at 25: The Quiet Machinery Behind China-Africa’s Headline Pledges
Summits make the headlines, but the triennial forum that turns them into roads, clinics and credit lines is the part that rarely gets named.
Beyond Tin: What Andrada’s 3.46% Lithium Hit Adds to Namibia’s Resource Case
A tin producer posts a battery-metal grade. The number is really an argument about where Namibia keeps value.
Strategic Ore: What CNNC’s N$5.12 Billion Etango Stake Means for Namibia
A state-owned Chinese nuclear firm takes 45% of a major uranium project, and the regulator attaches conditions to its consent.
Building Before the Law: Namibia’s Green Hydrogen Bet on Projects Ahead of Statute
A small commodity economy is building a new export industry faster than the law meant to govern it.
Mining’s N$7.8 Billion: Namibia Banks Record Tax From a Shrinking Sector
The mines paid the state more than ever in 2025, even as their real output fell. The gap is the story.
Namibia4Life: N$1 Billion and the Global Permanence-Finance Playbook
Namibia has not just raised conservation money – it has adopted a financing structure built to make that money permanent.