Chinese state-owned firms have built, financed or currently operate more than one-quarter of Africa’s ports, according to a new study that has detailed the scope of Beijing’s investment in the continent’s port developments.
Of a total of 231 ports in 32 African countries, China is invested in 78 facilities, with the heaviest concentrations in West Africa, underscoring the region’s strategic importance to China’s global trade ambitions, according to a report by Paul Nantulya of the National Defence University’s Africa Centre for Strategic Studies.
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