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Conservation Needs to Get Back on the China-Africa Agenda
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The Novel Coronavirus has yet to make landfall in Africa, but it's already starting to cause real economic damage to a number of economies across the continent. Africa's commodity-exporting countries have become increasingly dependent on robust Chinese demand over the past 10-15 years and now that economic ...