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China’s CCECC to invest $1.4bn into Tanzania-Zambia railway upgrade for 30-year concession

The China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) has committed to investing $1.4 billion to revitalize the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), a critical transport route for copper exports in Central Africa. The deal, announced at the recent Zambia International Mining and Energy Conference (ZIMEC 2025), aims to improve infrastructure and operations along the aging railway. Under […]

Libya: UN Envoy Warns of divisions, worsening economic climate

The United Nations’ Special Representative for Libya, Hanna Tetteh, has cautioned that growing divisions within Libya’s judiciary and a worsening economic climate are placing the country’s unity at risk and could destabilize the wider region. Briefing the UN Security Council, Tetteh stated that conditions in Libya are deteriorating on multiple fronts. She warned that the […]

Private lenders, not China, dominate debt repayments from poorer nations — study

Lower-income countries are paying private creditors nearly three times more than they repay China, according to new research by UK-based advocacy group Debt Justice, challenging dominant narratives around global debt. Between 2020 and 2025, 39% of the $354 billion in external debt repayments from 88 low-income countries and small island states will go to private […]