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China Expands Influence Over Zimbabwe Natural Resources

China Expands Influence Over Zimbabwe Natural Resources
A miner carries a load of ore at Manzou Farm, owned by Grace Mugabe, wife of former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, in Mazowe, Zimbabwe on April 5, 2018. Jekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty Images
Andrew Mambondiyani
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MUTARE, Zimbabwe—Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa is courting Chinese investors as China’s Zhejiang Province commits to a partnering arrangement with two Zimbabwean provinces.

Experts, however, are worried that the Zimbabwean government is giving China too much control over the country’s natural resources.

Andrew Mambondiyani
Andrew Mambondiyani
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Andrew Mambondiyani is a freelance journalist based in Zimbabwe with more than 10 years of journalism experience. He served as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT between 2010 and 2011, and in 2008 served as a Middleburry College Environment Journalism Fellow. His journalism has appeared in various local and international publications, including BBC, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Yale E360, IPs, Think Africa Press, SciDev.net, Centrepoint Now, Opendemocracy.net, and The Zimbabwean. He has a special interest in climate change, agriculture, human rights, sustainable development, and the environment in general.
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