U.S. worried about China’s growing influence in Africa

China has recently surpassed the United States as sub-Saharan Africa’s largest trading partner.

China is busy building railways and roads in Angola, Nigeria and Kenya, revving up trade volumes with South Africa and Zambia and, most of all, guzzling up Africa’s rich reserves of oil and minerals.

Increasingly too, Beijing is courting resource-rich countries, like the Zimbabwe and Sudan, that have been marginalized in recent years by the West, and forging partnerships on the strength of its non-interfering foreign policy.

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