Human Freedom Index - 2017 - East Africa and the Horn

The Washington-based CATO Institute, the Fraser Institute in Canada, and the Liberales Institut at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Germany have published the "2017 Human Freedom Index." It ranks 159 countries based on 79 distinct indicators using data from 2008 to 2017.

It ranked only four countries in East Africa and the Horn, all of which fell below the midpoint. Kenya performed best at number 89, followed by Uganda at 94 and Tanzania at 99. Ethiopia had the lowest regional ranking at number 146. The other countries in the Horn of Africa were not included.

Migration between China and Africa

The China Policy Institute Blog at the University of Nottingham published on 4 March 2015 a piece titled "10 Questions about Migration between China and Africa" by Li Anshan, Peking University.  It discusses Chinese living in Africa and Africans living in China.  An estimated 1.1 million Chinese were living in Africa in 2012; most are there for business opportunity.  Africans in China are there for both education and business opportunity.