Military Africa published on 4 August 2025 an article titled "Mali Receives Norinco CS/VP14 MRAPs from China, the Whole Story" by Ekene Lionel.
Mali received 36 Norinco mine-resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles to combat its counter-insurgency threat. The delivery diversifies its military equipment sourcing and underscores a growing military relationship with Beijing.
POLITICO published on 10 July 2022 an investigative report titled "DRC: China Xinxing, Rwanda, the M23 and the Weapons of Aggression" by Litsani Choukran.
Most of the weapons seized by the Congolese Army from the M23 rebel group in the eastern Congo are of Chinese manufacture. The Chinese state-owned Xinxing Company is the source of some of them, although they appear to have been sent to the Rwandan army, which then made them available to M23.
