Source: Financial Times

By William Wallis in London

Chinese state companies have been expanding across the African continent in pursuit of raw materials at an accelerating pace and with apparently far less attention to risk than some of their western peers.

Their push for minerals and mineral rights began in southern Sudan where the Chinese oil company CNOOC began building oil pipelines in the late 1990s - long before separatist rebels struck a deal with the Khartoum regime to end decades of civil war.

Despite the growing presence of Chinese workers in far-flung corners of Africa - working on roads, mines, hydroelectric dams, pipelines and other projects - there have been relatively few reports of them falling victim to violence or becoming ensnared in localised conflicts.

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Posted by pichu at April 25, 2007 11:57 PM