The Chinese face labour problems all over Africa
When China evacuated 400 construction workers from Mongomo
in Equatorial Guinea in early April, it marked the culmination
of a labour dispute with a difference. In several African countries,
notably Zambia and Congo-Kinshasa, Chinese companies have been criticised for their treatment of local staff. In other African countries, like Sudan, Ethiopia and Nigeria, Chinese technical staff have been kidnapped by dissident groups. But in Equatorial Guinea the tension was generated by the local authorities clashing with labourers imported from China....
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