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Ethiopia

China Dschibuti Adis Abeba.
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China builds Africa's first spaceport

China is taking relations with Africa to a new level. A Chinese spaceport is to be built in Djibouti, on the strategically important Horn of Africa, the first spaceport on the continent. And that at a time when Djibouti can no longer service its debts to China.

By Frank Sieren

Qin Gang Benin: China in Afrika
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China provides money, the West provides promises

The first trip of the new Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang is to Africa. This has to do with tradition but, above all, with geopolitics. The West also wants to become more active in Africa. Beijing now says: We have been number one in Europe's neighborhood for a long time.

By Michael Radunski