The continuously rising Sino-Japanese competition in Africa – which had recently become a new theater for the two countries to play out their fierce rivalry – has been going on for a while and doesn’t seem to come to halt any sooner. In fact, it is quite heating up as they jostle to win over Africa through influence and billion-dollar worth of aid.

The contest begun when Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged a 30-billion-dollars worth of public and private support for the African development during the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) – a conference that Japan co-sponsors together with the United Nations and the African Union which was held in Nairobi, Kenya on the 27th and 28th of August 2016. In addition, 10 billion dollars was allocated for infrastructure projects in cooperation with the African Development Bank. Continue reading Japanese Aid versus Chinese Influence Who Will Win Over Africa →