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Podcast Transcript: Kenya Tribunal Blocks Chinese-Financed Coal Power Plant

by Eric Olander
SIMON MAINA / AFP

Eric: Hello, and welcome to another edition
of China in Africa podcast. I’m Eric Olander and as always, I’m joined by Cobus
van Staden, a senior China-Africa researcher at the South African Institute of International
Affairs in Johannesburg, South Africa. A very good afternoon to you Cobus.

Cobus:  Good afternoon.

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