The Official Blog of Amb. David H. Shinn

 The Club of Mozambique published on 22 September 2026 an article titled " Mozambique Wants to Revise Agreement with China to Strengthe...

 The Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame published in October 2025 a paper titled " Chinese Demand for Timb...

  Foreign Policy published on 9 September 2025 an article titled " China's Appetite for Rosewood Is Causing Chaos in Africa "...

 The Environmental Investigation Agency published in October 2024 a report titled " Until the Last Log ." The report indicates tha...

 The China Global South project published on 15 January 2024 a study titled " Lack of Political Will in Ghana Fuels Illegal Rosewood Lo...

 Global Witness published in October 2023 a report titled " Puncturing the Second Lung of the World ." An international non-govern...

 The Heritage Institute for Policy Studies published in November 2021 a study titled " Prospects of Food Security in Somalia under Loom...

The South China Morning Post published an article on 13 October 2019 titled " Activists in Ghana Lead Fight against China-backed Bauxi...

The World Economic Forum posted on 31 July 2019 an article on reforestation in Ethiopia by Johnny Wood. Ethiopia planted more than 350 mi...

Ghanabusiness.com recently posted a detailed account titled " China's Lust for Rosewood Fuels Logging in Ghana's Poorest Regi...

The New York Times published on 30 July 2017 a long article titled " Loss of Fertile Land Fuels 'Looming Crisis' across Africa...

The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies published on 28 March 2017 a commentary titled " The Dark Legacy of China's D...

Charlton Doki, writing for Inter Press Service , has done an excellent analysis of growing deforestation in South Sudan. The problem has wor...