Allawi Ssemanda, Author at Development Watch Centre

Framing Foreign Employees: Tales of Chinese Workers at Karuma Hydropower Project

Figures from the Word Bank indicate that approximately, one billion people from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia have no access to electricity. This is a huge barrier to socio-economic transformation of world’s significant population and has both direct and indirect effects on development efforts like slowing expansion of development indicators such as health, poverty reduction programs, education, food […]

Allawi Ssemanda • Jun 15, 2024 • 6 min read

Foreign Policy Analysis

Taiwan is an Inelienable Part of China: Lai Ching-te Must Climb Down

On 20th this month, Lai Ching-te was inaugurated as the Island’s new leader, taking over from Tsai Ing-Wen who pundits saw as United States of America’s (USA) lapdog. Like Tsai Ing-Wen, Lai Ching-te started his leadership on a confrontational note presenting himself as defender and agent of Washington’s hegemonic interests in the strait of Taiwan. In […]

Allawi Ssemanda • May 30, 2024 • 6 min read

Development Assistance

China’s Concept of Building a Community of Shared Future for Mankind: A Game Changer for an Ideal World

Explaining that currently, “the international security situation is grim, economic recovery lacks momentum, and the gap in development is widening,” Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the concept of building a community of a shared future for mankind.” This was 2013, and President Xi was answering what China called the historical question of the time, the world […]

Allawi Ssemanda • Apr 15, 2024 • 6 min read

Development Assistance

Build Back Better World v BRI: Can Africa Benefit From Development Finance Competition?

There is a competition. A spending competition. The spending is in trillion dollars. Developing countries are participants. Participating from an interesting position. Participating as recipients. Imagine that. Being at the receiving end of a spending competition! Whereas both foreign aid and development finance are projects that pursue development objectives in developing countries, we should distinguish […]

Allawi Ssemanda • Mar 18, 2024 • 4 min read

Diplomacy

Not President XI Jinping but Joe Biden is a Dictator

Last week, just hours after the U.S President Joe Biden met with his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping in San Francisco. Biden described this meeting as “some of the most productive” talks before he announced on his X account resumption of military-to-military communications. However, while responding to a question from a CNN journalist, president Biden […]

Allawi Ssemanda • Nov 20, 2023 • 6 min read

Belt and Road Initiative

Xi’s Third Belt & Road Forum Speech Re-affirms China’s Commitment to Building a Community of Shared Prosperity

Last week, the world leaders gathered in Chinese capital Beijing as leaders from over 150 countries, and representatives of international organisations met in Beijing for the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. The event also marked 10 years of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Jointly implemented by participating partners, BRI which was […]

Allawi Ssemanda • Oct 26, 2023 • 6 min read

Belt and Road Initiative

A Decade of Lighting Nations Through Energy Infrastructure Development: Recounting Fruits of the Belt and Road Initiative

On average, an African woman spend up to 5 hours per day collecting firewood. A study funded by Finnish ministry of foreign affairs on Modern Cooking Facility for Africa (MCFA) contends this prevents women and young girls from engaging in productive economic activities, school and at times exposes them to physical violence. MCFA attributes this […]

Allawi Ssemanda • Oct 17, 2023 • 5 min read

Diplomacy

Palestine-Israel Conflict: U.S & the EU are Hypocrites; They Should Learn from China

There are growing fears of unprecedented humanitarian crisis as a result of Israeli indiscriminate bombing and blockade of Gaza strip. This follows widely expected Israeli ground invasion as the fanatical far-right government vows to turn Gaza into what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a “desert island” as a response to what Israelis see as humiliating […]

Allawi Ssemanda • Oct 17, 2023 • 6 min read

Belt and Road Initiative

Belt And Road Initiative at 10: A Decade of Connectivity and Shared Prosperity

This month marks 10 years since Chinese President, Xi Jinping put forward the idea of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In October 2013, President Xi who doubles as the Secretary General of Chinese Community Party (CPC) explained that the initiative then seen as restoration of the ancient maritime silk road would help in facilitating […]

Allawi Ssemanda • Oct 13, 2023 • 6 min read

BRICS

BRICS: The Vehicle of Inclusive Development, Tranquillity and Multipolar World

The 15th BRICS Summit is ongoing in South Africa’s city of Johannesburg under the theme BRICS and Africa- Partnership for Mutually Accelerated Growth. The summit comes at a time when the world being tested by challenges such as geopolitical competition, the climate crisis, unilateralism, block confrontation with some countries in blocks promoting own security at […]

Allawi Ssemanda • Aug 24, 2023 • 7 min read