{"id":20409,"date":"2014-10-08T22:06:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T20:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=20409"},"modified":"2014-10-08T22:06:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T20:06:44","slug":"chinas-midde-man-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/chinas-midde-man-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"China’s Midde Man in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Burgis writes:\u00a0 On his way home from Nelson Mandela\u2019s memorial service in December, Ernest Bai Koroma, the president of Sierra Leone, stopped off in Angola to discuss an investment in his war-scarred nation. Fellow guests in the dining room of a golden skyscraper in the centre of Luanda, one of the towering edifices that an oil boom has raised above the slums of Angola\u2019s capital, observed Koroma in rapt conversation with the Chinese man seated to his right.
\nThe short 56-year-old had a receding hairline and a neat goatee beard. He wore a black suit, a red tie and rectangular spectacles. He goes by at least seven names and keeps a lower profile than the Chinese dignitaries who have visited African capitals to trumpet Beijing\u2019s burgeoning alliance with a continent whose oil and minerals have helped feed China\u2019s phenomenal economic growth. Most commonly, he is known as Sam Pa.\u00a0 China’s Middleman in Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Tom Burgis writes:\u00a0 On his way home from Nelson Mandela\u2019s memorial service in December, Ernest Bai Koroma, the president of Sierra Leone, stopped off in Angola to discuss an investment in his war-scarred nation. Fellow guests in the dining room … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-news-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t