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/ 31 January 2004
Chinese President Hu Jintao will unveil Beijing’s new policy towards Africa in a speech to parliament in Gabon, where he is due to arrive on Sunday on the second leg of a three-nation tour of the continent. ”We have entered a new era, the 21st century, and Chinese leaders have changed,” said Chinese ambassador Fan Zhenshui.
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/ 20 January 2003
Unfavourable rains could not have come at a worse time for Ivory Coast’s cocoa growers, already grappling with the effects of a civil war that has torn the west African country in two.