President of Guinea Bissau Comments on White House Meeting, China, and Russia

 The Atlantic Council published on 11 July 2025 an article titled "Guinea-Bissau's President on His Meeting with Trump, Relations with Russia and China, and Whether He Will Accept US Deportees" by Katherine Golden.  

President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, who met President Trump with four other African presidents at the White House, subsequently noted that he also met with the presidents of China and Russia.  Embalo expressed the desire for more American investment and said now is not the right time for the West to end the battle against terrorism in Africa.

40 African States Sign Belt and Road MOUs with China

Quartz Africa published on 30 September 2019 an article titled "These Are the African Countries Not Signed To China's Belt and Road Project" by Abdi Latif Dahir.

Forty African countries have signed a Belt and Road Initiative MOU with China. The following fourteen countries have for various reasons not signed an MOU: Eritrea, Mauritius, DRC, CAR, Benin, Equatorial Guinea, eSwatini, Botswana, Sao Tome and Principe, Burkina Faso, Comoros, Lesotho, Guinea Bissau, and Malawi.

Africa and 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index

Ventures Africa posted a summary of the results for Sub-Saharan Africa contained in the 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index released on 29 January 2019 by Transparency International. Sub-Saharan Africa scored lowest of all major world regions.

The best scoring countries in Sub-Saharan Africa were Seychelles (ranked 28 globally), Botswana (34), Cape Verde (45), Rwanda (48), and Namibia (52). The worst scoring countries in Sub-Saharan Africa were Somalia (180), South Sudan (178), Sudan (tied 172), Guinea Bissau (tied 172), and Equatorial Guinea (tied 172).

Chinese Fishing Practices under Fire in West Africa

Greenpeace published in May 2015 a report titled "Scam on the African Coast: The Hidden Face of Chinese and Joint-venture Vessels Tonnage Fraud in Senegal, Guinea Bissau and Guinea." 

The report exposes how China's biggest distant water fishing company, the China National Fisheries Corporation, and other Chinese companies, under-declare the gross tonnage of their fishing vessels, whether Chinese flagged or owned and operated under other flags through joint ventures, and jeopardize the sustainable and equitable exploitation of West African marine resources.  The report is based mainly on data collected in Senegal, Guinea Bissau and Guinea.

A French-language copy of the  report is also available.