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On 24 May, Seoul’s Strategy and Finance Ministry identified Algeria, Ethiopia, Congo-Kinshasa, South Africa and Tanzania as ‘strategically important’ countries in its economic cooperation with Africa. South Korea will target infrastructure projects in Northern and Southern Africa, and mining and agricultural investment in East and Central Africa. Nigeria, where South Korean oil companies have been involved in extended legal proceedings (AAC Vol 2 No 3), is absent from the list of countries that will get Seoul’s special attention....

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Algeria, Ethiopia, Congo-Kinshasa, South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Choi Kyung-hwan, Namibia, Australian, Zimbabwean, Morgan Tsvangirai, Chung Un-chan, Elias Mudzuri, Henry Dzinotyiweyi, Robert Mugabe, Senegal, Samuel Sarr, Lee Bae-soo, Karim Wade, Kenya, China, India, Kim Seong-jin, Gabonese, Zambia, Park Ki-sik