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Faced with its own economic crisis, Seoul remains determined to expand its economic and political ties with Africa

Seoul’s Africa summit on 27-30 October is smaller than the grand Japan-Africa, China-Africa or India-Africa events of the last five years, but it demonstrates the importance of Africa as a trading partner across all of Asia. Alongside Asia’s hyper-economies, recently Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam – as well as Korea – have all ratcheted up relations with Africa....

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Japan, China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Lee Myung-bak, North Korea, Ghana, Kenya, Donald Kaberuka, Congo-Kinshasa, Lambert Mende Omalanga, Salomon Banamuhere, Roh Moo-hyun, Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Lee Gun-tae, Yu Myung-hwan, Chin Dong-soo, Kang Man-soo, Angola, Tanzania, Senegal, Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar, Lee Youn-ho, Wo Kyu-seo, Simon Mbatshi Batshia, Cameroonian

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