ge haijiao, who heads the boc�*s board, has been named as its acting president.put sanctions on more than a0 chinese companies over their alleged links to russia. the move has drawn strong words from china, who called the us to stop its "typical unilateral sanctions". china added that it would take the necessary measures to protect the interests of domestic companies. turning to africa, where infrastructure investment is increasingly becoming a priority. but estimates show there is a gap of financing of more than $100 billion a year. the bbc�*s lukwesa burak sat down with the chief executive of the africa finance corporation to find out why. so the first thing is that we don't really have access. why not? because our risk is perceived higher, which is not true, you know, because several studies have indicated that the default rates in africa are one of the lowest in the world, actually. same rate with western europe. the only region with a lower default rate is the middle east. africa has much lower default rate than north america, latin america, and asia. yet ou