CHINESE AND SOVIET ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP08S01350R000100300002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2008
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 26, 1973
• Content Type: MEMO

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Opis USE
26 January 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mrs. Betty Zwolanek
United State Information Agency
Washington, D.C.
SUBJECT : Chinese and Soviet Economic
Activities in Sub-Saharan Africa
Attached is the information you requested on Communist
economic activit;,.es in Africa.
STAT
Chief
Trade and Aid Branch
Office of Economic Research
Attachment:
As stated
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Soviet and Chinese Economic Activity
in Sub-Saharan Africa in 1972
The People's Republic of China continued to press its
economic aid initiatives in Black Africa in 1972 as it
extended nearly $175 million of new aid to six countries.
Chinese commitments to Burundi, Dahomey, the Malagasy
Republic, Rwanda and Togo represented their first Communist
assistance while Peking's credit to Mauritius is that
country's largest from a Communist source. Cameroon and
Nigeria also signed their first trade and economic
assistance agreements with China, but the values were not
announced.
In September, Peking agreed to reinstate its aid
program in Ghana, cut off when the Chinese were expelled in
1966. It also signed protocols under previous aid agreements
calling for assistance to agriculture and construction of a
sports complex in Sierra Leone, construction of a hospital
in Congo, and telecommunications facilities in Guinea.
Guinea signed a new aid agreement with China but its
provisions are not known.