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The Optics of China Paying For Kenya’s New Foreign Ministry Building Just Looks Awful

by Eric Olander
Kenya's Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Macharia Kamau with Chinese ambassador Zhou Pingjian. Image via the Kenya Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Kenya is a middle-income country with a $100 billion economy and it still can’t afford to pay for its own $35 million foreign ministry building? Really?

They spent $6 billion on a railroad and the government can’t figure out a way to come up with $35 million for a new building? 

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