Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will begin a five-nation African tour on Monday in Nigeria in what’s now a 30-year old custom of Beijing’s top diplomat always starting the year with a visit to the continent.
After Nigeria, Wang will fly to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Tanzania, and the Seychelles, a small Indian Ocean island chain off the coast of East Africa.
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