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China in Africa

Rebel Without a Cause: Playing Chicken in South Sudan

Tom Ginsburg | Posted 08.12.2012 | World
Read More: China in Africa, Omar Al-Bashir, Sudanese Government, Sudan, East Africa, Oil, China, South Sudan, World News
Tom Ginsburg

Those who are fighting will naturally look to China to help resolve the dispute. Silence is not really an option.

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Bwana Uncle Sam

Eric Margolis | Posted 12.31.2011 | World
Read More: France, China in Africa, Ethopia, Mogadishu, US-Africa-Command, Kenya, Somalia, Pipelines, Djibouti, Shebab, World News
Eric Margolis

Having finished off former ally Muammar Gaddafi, the Pentagon, its new Africa Command, and CIA are now focusing on East Africa. In fact, Africa is hot.

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Howard French on Africa in a Chinese Century (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: China in Africa, Patrice Lumumba, Tunisia, Radio Conversation, Howard French, Africa, Foreign Reporting, Christopher Lydon, Congo, Brown University, Columbia Journalism School, China, Cote D'Ivoire, World News
Christopher Lydon

Fifty years almost to the day after the catastrophic assassination of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo, the journalist Howard French is sketching an alternative path ahead for African development today.

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