African leaders don’t think cooperation with China will add to debt burden

File. President Xi Jinping and his SA counterpart President Cyril Ramaphosa, during his recent visit to China.

JOHANNESBURG – African leaders attending this week’s summit with China don’t think that cooperation between the continent and Beijing has added to their debt burden Reuters reported. 

Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged $60 billion to African nations at Monday’s opening of a China-Africa forum on cooperation, matching the size of funds offered at the last summit in Johannesburg in 2015.

– African News Agency (ANA)

Source: iol.co.za