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Kenya boosts avocado exports to repay debt

Dagmar Zindel
June 29, 2022

Like Kenya, many African countries are heavily indebted to China for capital they needed to expand their infrastructure. They’ve become financially dependent and repaying the immense debt is proving difficult.

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