China could be driven to bolster its support for stability in West Africa and the Sahel after the deadly attack in Chad, observers say China is putting its Global Security Initiative to the test in Africa's conflict-torn Sahel region after gunmen stormed the presidential palace in Chad earlier this month.
Chad will firmly advance relations with China and push for greater development of bilateral ties and more cooperation results.
"Deby knows that he has a lot of enemies who want to replace him or change the way Chad is dealing with different crises." (Reporting by Mahamat Ramadane; Additional reporting by Laurie Chen in Beijing, David Lewis in Nairobi and Sofia Christensen in Dakar ...
Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi here on Wednesday to discuss advancing bilateral cooperation. Mahamat asked Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee,
Paul Nantulya, a China analyst at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies in Washington, noted that China has recently become bolder in taking advantage of the French vacuum by delivering batches of high-end security equipment to Sahel countries over the last 15 months.
Chad and Namibia as the stops on his visit to Africa this week. For decades it has been tradition that Beijing’s top diplomat makes his first foreign foray of the year to the African continent ...
ABUJA – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Jan 9 pledged Beijing’s full support and ... the Republic of Congo and Chad before winding up his tour in Nigeria, where he held talks with Nigerian ...
China stands ready to work with Chad to promote the all-round development of China-Chad strategic partnership, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said
This year marks the start of implementing the outcomes of the Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) held in Beijing. Based on a new orientation of China-Chad relations and a new ...
Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway is a key outcome of FOCAC's stewardship of Sino-Africa relations over the last 25 years.
African countries will be looking to recalibrate their strategic partnerships with China to advance African interests as the continent positions itself to exercise greater agency in its external partnerships ANALYSIS | PAUL NANTULYA | Africa-China relations in 2025 kicked off with a trip to the continent by China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi from January 5-11.