Japan has upped the competition with China in aiding East Africa’s development after signing a US$275 million loan to fund Kenya’s second phase of the Mombasa port expansion, reports our Chinese-language sister paper Want Daily. The US$275 million loan is part of a US$546 million contract aiming to move along the 2020 projected completion date […]
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Japan, with one eye on China, asks what it can do for Africa
AFTER a recent controversial visit to Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine — which commemorates Japan’s war dead and so houses the remains of war criminals from the Second World War — the “Samurai”, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, confronted the “Chinese Dragon” head-on in Africa. Business Day