Central African Republic News News Central African Republic » Trade: Patterns of Chinese Investment, Aid and Trade in Central Africa
An overview of China relations with Central African countries (Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon), and impacts of Chinese trade and investments on the local economy, environment and ...
News Central African Republic » Trade: Remaining Wagner Group mercenaries build opioid-fueled criminal empire in Central African Republic
Several hundred Wagner fighters remain based along the upper Oubangui River in the Central African Republic, where they run a drug trade built around tramadol, an opioid painkiller that becomes a ...
News Central African Republic » Trade: Transforming CEMAC’s Wealth into Long-term Development – Economic Barometer for the Central African Economic and Monetary Community – December 2025 Edition
Economic growth in the CEMAC region is projected to slow to 2.8% in 2025, with persistent fiscal pressures and rising poverty affecting over a third of the population. The region’s wealth increased ...
News Central African Republic » Trade: China in Africa: investment and trade work well when there’s strong oversight, and badly when there isn’t
A digger at a cobalt mine in Kawama, Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2016. The cobalt is sold to a Chinese company. Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images China’s economic ...