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EU launches reset with Africa after pandemic disruption

EU launches reset with Africa after pandemic disruption

JOHN CHALMERS and PHILIP BLENKINSOP THE EU welcomed more than 40 African leaders to Brussels in an effort to reassert its influence on a continent where China and Russia have made hefty investment inroads, and where many felt let down by Europe's COVID-19 vaccines rollout. The European Union will offer several packages of support at the summit to bolster health, education and stability in Africa, and will pledge half of a new 300-billion-euro ($340.9 billion) investment drive launched to rival China's Belt and Road Initiative. But the meeting also takes place just as France and its allies fighting Islamist militants…
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