The mediation committee, comprising of Ethiopians, Sudanese and Chinese nationals, is based in Yiwu City, a coastal Zhejiang Province in eastern China. Merchants from over 100 countries are based in Yiwu city. The committee, officially known as the judicial office of International Trade City, has reduced the number of case investigated by the Police in recent years. It says it objective is to further ease emerging disputes between Chinese traders and foreign consumers in order to smoothen the path of trade transactions. Chinese provinces with huge volume of exports to African countries seem to be working frantically to limit some of the disadvantages dogging trade transactions and the progress by the Yiwu mediation committee seems to be building momentum year-on-year, strengthening trade between China and Africa.

Source: Front Page Africa October 16, 2017 03:00 UTC