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Subject
Regional infrastructure ambitions.
Significance
Plans for large-scale regional infrastructure projects have become vehicles for economic cooperation in East Africa over the past several years. However, behind the rhetoric of regional solidarity, such ventures have become a critical arena for power rivalries to play out.
Impacts
Infrastructure plans are exacerbating local conflicts in northern Kenya and driving new dynamics.
Land grabbing is a trend across areas where new infrastructure is meant to be, tying political and business elites to original plans.
Despite its ambitions to reduce reliance on Khartoum, South Sudan is not going to be a secure infrastructure partner for some time.
Keywords:
East Africa,
AF,
Burundi,
China,
Ethiopia,
Kenya,
Rwanda,
South Sudan,
Sudan,
Tanzania,
Uganda,
economy,
industry,
politics,
foreign investment,
government,
infrastructure
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2015
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