The South China Morning Post published on 19 April 2026 an article titled "China Steps Up Aid to Africa but Huge Funding Gap Left by Trump's Cuts Remains" by Jevans Nyabiage.
Large cuts in aid to Africa by the Trump administration (and other donors) have left major gaps in funding of essential programs. China has increased its health diplomacy and donations of food aid but has hardly made a dent in the gap left by Washington and several other donor countries.
The South China Morning Post published on 29 October 2023 an article titled "China Taps Soft Power to Send Its Best Doctors to Rwanda. But Is There a 'Commercial Motive'?" by Bernadette Toh, Nanyang Technological University.
China has been sending medical teams to Rwanda since 1982. They have been the core of China's foreign aid to Rwanda and the most visible evidence of its soft power. Chinese traditional medicine has also been well received on a continent that makes frequent use of its own version of home grown medical treatment.
The most recent edition of Revue Internationale des Etudes du Developpement is devoted to the topic "Relations afro-chinoises: decentrer l'analyse."
The articles in this special issue offer a decentering of the approach to Afro-Chinese relations through an analysis of Africans taking an active role in order to assess to what extent the Chinese presence has responded or not to African requests, and how African actors have responded.
The articles deal with China's role in Ghana's free zones, the role of executives in Chinese construction subsidiaries in Algeria, Chinese medical teams in Cameroon, the promotion of kung fu in Cameroon and Gabon, and testimonials of French-speaking African students in Chengdu.
Eritrea's Ministry of Information posted on 14 December 2022 a statement titled "Eritrea-China Medical Cooperation: A Quarter Century of Progress" by Fikrejesus Amahazion.
The article commemorates 25 years of Chinese medical teams assigned to Eritrea. Since 1997, fifteen Chinese medical teams, comprising well over 200 doctors and health professionals, have worked in Eritrea.
The Diplomat published on 2 November 2020 an analysis titled "China's Multifaceted COVID-19 Diplomacy Across Africa" by R. Maxwell Bone and Ferdinando Cinotto, both students at the University of Cambridge.
China has undertaken a diplomatic and economic offensive across Africa, seeking to prove itself as a reliable partner and erase criticism of its initial handling of the virus. Despite the fact that at the beginning of the pandemic some predicted it would lead to a downturn in relations between China and Africa, it has now become clear that the Communist Party has attempted to use the pandemic as an opportunity to strengthen such ties.
