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August 24, 2023

Protesters Demand China End Support for East African Crude Oil Pipe Line
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On Wednesday, hundreds of environmental and human rights activists
gathered outside the BRICS summit demanding China halt financing for
fossil fuel projects in Africa. Protesters cited the China-backed East
African Crude Oil Pipeline project, known as EACOP. Campaigner and
protest leader Zaki Mamdoo said a true friend to Africa would not fund
projects that displace communities, unravel livelihoods and destroy
ecosystems.

Zaki Mamdoo: "What friend would come into your house and remove you from
your house and take your land, kill your crops and subject your children
to illness and harm? That is a bad friend. That's a bad friend. These
ones, of China, of Russia, of India, they aspire to be the same colonial
extractors."



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