https://www.myjoyonline.com/business/2018/july-18th/china-battles...

https://www.myjoyonline.com/busines...r-business-in-its-former-african-colonies.php

Source: Bloomberg
Date: 18-07-2018 Time: 11:07:15:am

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And as the Chinese come, West African officials and engineers are doing their homework. They’ve followed the experience of big-ticket investment destinations such as Angola, where Chinese companies have been criticized for using their own workers and supplies almost exclusively to complete projects and providing little opportunity for local employment and businesses.

When Ivory Coast awarded a $580 million contract for one of President Alassane Ouattara’s flagship projects and its first hydropower dam in decades to China’s state-run Sinohydro Corp., the authorities set conditions: the working language was to be French, only 20 percent of the workforce could be Chinese and building material such as cement had to be purchased locally.

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It’s a similar story in Senegal, where the economy grew 7.2 percent last year. China’s CGC Overseas Construction Group is building an industrial park in a brand-new city outside the capital, Dakar, and China Railway Construction is set to renovate its railroads.

Other Chinese-led projects include the construction of a new Foreign Affairs Ministry and the rehabilitation of an ageing dam in the southern Ziguinchor region.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay his first-ever visit to Senegal on Saturday to inaugurate a museum of black civilization. Like the Soubre dam in Ivory Coast, the idea for the museum dates back to the 1960s, but it wasn’t built until China provided the funds.