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Does Chad have any geostrategic value for the United States?
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The U.S. military plans to return to Chad within a
month for talks about revising an agreement that allows it to keep
troops based there, an American general said Wednesday.
The U....
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Why does resentment toward former colonizers such as France still linger in Africa?
Others point to what they see as hypocrisy in Western condemnations of
Russia; Western countries also deploy PMCs across the continent, which
has led the AU to call for the “complete exclusion of ...
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Clear and concrete definition of "Third World" [duplicate]
Commonly, when I discuss with a pro-western American, or perhaps sometimes Europeans about an African Country I always hear this, "But it's third world" on investopedia.com "Third World&...
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What benefits does China gain by waiving debt to African countries like this?
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/zxxx_662805/202208/t20220819_10745617.html
What benefits does China gain by waiving debt to African countries like this?
Second, we need to take concrete actions to ...
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Why does the U.S. keep pushing "the debt trap" narrative in Africa when China is not the major source of debt distress in Africa?
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5652847de4b033f56d2bdc29/t/5c467754898583fc9a99131f/1548121941093/Briefing+Paper+1+-+August+2018+-+Final.pdf
We find that Chinese loans are not currently a ...
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Is the success of Chinese economic model in Africa a threat to Western interests?
Rwanda's economic development has been fantastic in the last couple of years allowing Rwanda to become a model of development success. Is this success a good thing considering that its model of ...
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Why does the US seem to have a rather low economic interest in Africa?
This question shows us the increasing economic interest of China in the African continent. Indeed this document confirms that China's trade in goods with African countries is half of the EU's:
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Why is China trying to develop Africa?
Kishore Mahbubani, a scholar on government policy, claimed (YouTube link) that China is trying to develop Africa more than any other country. What benefits would China gain by developing Africa ...
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