China takes up civic work in Africa
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It's sending 1,809 UN peacekeepers and 300 volunteers in a new Chinese 'peace corps' program.
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Some of the world's wealthiest residents are exploiting their connections, expertise and nest eggs to change Africa's fate.
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Crumbling sport stadiums still  stand in many African capitals, the enduring symbols of China's  Cold War courtship of the world's poorest continent during the  1960s and 1970s.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Cameroon on the first stage of an eight-nation Africa tour to forge political and economic ties with the continent, national radio reported here.
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China and the African Union on Friday launched a 150-million-dollar project to build a new conference centre for the cash-strapped continental body, officials said.
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China sought to defend its role in  Africa on Monday ahead of this week&#39;s G8 summit, saying its  long friendship with the continent was a force for good and  shrugging off the threat of criticism at the meeting in  Germany.
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LONDON, Oct 5 (IPS) - Civil society is growing rapidly in China --    where the government will let it, according to a new civil  society   index report by the group Civicus.
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President Hu Jintao pledged a new  level of cooperation between Beijing and its third-largest  African trading partner at the start of the Chinese leader's  first visit to Sudan on Friday.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair's personal organisation to spearhead development activities in Africa issued a call on Thursday for massive international cooperation to assist the continent.
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LEAL, Sudan -- On this parched and dusty African plain, China's largest energy company is pumping crude oil, sending it 1,000 miles upcountry through a Chinese-made pipeline to the Red Sea, where tankers wait to ferry it to China's industrial cities. Chinese laborers based in a camp of prefabricated sheds work the wells and lay highways across the flats to ...
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Each year the West showers the Southeast Asian country with more aid, hoping it will clean up its act. But China isn't making it easy
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Chinese President Hu Jintao is in Africa bearing the usual gifts of money for soccer stadiums and interest-free loans. But he also has brought a new recognition of the downside of China's aggressive quest for the continent's resources.
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The International Monetary Fund agrees to give China and three other emerging nations a greater voice.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao promised Wednesday to increase imports from Africa, responding to fears about the trade deficit that increased as China pumped unprecedented aid, investment and loans into the poor but resource-rich continent.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao has departed for a pressure-packed 12 days traversing eight African nations, with genocide, oil, aid and booming trade just some of the issues on the agenda.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao has vowed to forge a partnership of equals with South Africa as he held talks with his counterpart Thabo Mbeki on the latest leg of an eight-nation swing through Africa.
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The head of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, proposes joint aid projects in Africa with China.