Large swathes of Chinese financing went into constructing the 100,000 kilometers (km) of road networks in Africa along with the 6,000-km of rail lines, as well as upgrading 80 shipping ports, building large hospitals, power plants, water treatment facilities and many other key infrastructure project...

African countries are now facing "a witches brew of financial, fuel and food crises" due to drought, the pandemic, and now the war in Ukraine, says Gyude Moore, a fellow at the Center for Global Development and former government minister for Liberia.

CNN’s Eleni Giokos talks to Gyude Moore of the Gyude Moore Center for Global Development about the meeting.

Gyude, where is a senior policy fellow at the Center for global development he joins me now from Washington.

It remains anyone’s guess though what this figure is, says Gyude Moore, senior policy fellow at the Centre for Global Development, as China “doesn’t produce reports on the money it’s lending or where it’s going."

One way to narrow the size of Africa’s infrastructure gap would be to spur the development of new ways of sealing roads that can help bring the cost of roads down. How can we do that? With an advance market commitment.

W. Gyude Moore, Liberia's former Minister of Public Works and now a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, said that over the past decade, especially after China announced its Rim strategy. Belt and Road, many African countries have reached the limit of how much debt they can "re...