DINNER PARTY INTEL: Russia gambles on Africa
Russia is building relations with African rulers, striking military deals and grooming new leaders and undercover agents to bolster its presence on the continent
13 June 2019 - 05:00
1. Charity begins at home
China’s aid to the home regions of African leaders nearly tripled after they assumed power, according to a Quartz report. Though President Xi Jinping insists Chinese aid to Africa — which rose to $15bn in 2018 — is free of conditions, the political ties are difficult to hide. The news website cited a study in the Journal of Development Economics that shows the birth regions of African presidents received nearly three times the aid inflows from Beijing in the years when those leaders were in power as they did at other times...
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