Before its 230,000 oz peak, Diamba Sud is a near-$400m construction job: land, engineering capacity and corridors decide who captures the build in Senegal.
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Property
Schools You Can See: China’s Visible but Underwritten Education Build in Africa
China has funded more than 170 schools across Africa. The visible buildings raise a quieter question of who pays the teachers and bills after handover.
Surgical Wings and Lab Benches: China’s Health-System Build-Out in Africa
A fresh roster of Chinese-built hospitals and diagnostic centres reads as system-strengthening. Whether national budgets can run them is the unwritten clause.
Clinics and Classrooms: China’s Twin-Track Health Story in Africa
China’s foreign ministry counts decades of medical teams and tens of thousands trained. The harder question is what stays once the visiting doctors fly home.
Africa CDC’s Headquarters: A China-Built Home for a Sovereignty Question
Africa’s disease-control agency got a continental headquarters built and paid for by China. The building is a gift; the autonomy it houses is the harder thing.
Hospitals as Aid: China’s Brick-and-Mortar Health Footprint in Africa
A hospital is the most visible form of aid and the hardest to sustain. China has funded scores across Africa – and the building is the easy part.
TEDA Suez: How a Chinese desert zone became Egypt’s industrial showpiece
A patch of Red Sea Gobi was meant to lure factories away from the Suez Canal’s shadow. Two decades on it hosts nearly 200 firms – and a set of questions about who the industrialisation is really for.
Dukem’s Wager: What One Chinese Industrial Zone Taught Ethiopia About Factories
A private Chinese developer bet US$180 million on a field outside Addis Ababa in 2007. What grew there became a test of whether Africa can host the factory floor.
Generate, Carry, Build: Reading Africa’s Power Sector as One Chain
Generation, transmission and industry are usually budgeted in separate columns. The output of each is the input of the next – which is why the weakest link sets the pace.