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[ 28 Feb 2012 | 2 Comments | 3,901 views]

David Cameron warned Africa against an impending Chinese invasion during a recent speech in Nigeria. However, nothing is likely to stop the China Harbour Engineering Company going ahead with the Kribi Deep Seaport project in South Cameroon, as the Cameroonian President has laid the foundation stone to kick-start the project.
 
Speaking in Lagos in early July 2011, the British Prime Minister complained of China neither protecting …

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[ 9 Dec 2011 | No Comment | 2,904 views]

Investors were widely expected to abandon Africa -the world’s wealthiest continent, yet portrayed as the poorest by the media – after the recent waves of publicity about the famine in Somalia.
Once again, Africa has been making headlines for the wrong reasons, and there are real concerns that lenders will no longer make funds available to support it following the Somali crisis.
“At the height of a …