Hu delivers speech at forum

(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-11-05 09:25

China's President Hu Jintao (C) applauds as he is flanked by African leaders at the opening ceremony of the China-Africa Summit at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, November 4, 2006. China will provide $5 billion in loans and credits to Africa over the coming three years and double aid to the backward but resource rich continent by 2009, Hu said on Saturday. Hu is pictured with (L to R) Somali President Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Madagascar's President Marc Ravalomanana, Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki, President of the Republic of Congo Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Seychelles' President James Michel. [Reuters]

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