New colonial carve-up of Africa? British firms vying for £1trillion natural resources

‘British government-supported firms are engaged in a piratical contest for African natural resources as part of a new colonialist “scramble for Africa,” a major new report claims.
Development NGO War On Want published its latest cutting report, titled ‘The New Colonialism: Britain’s scramble for Africa’s energy and mineral resources’, on Monday.
The study argues that a British relaunch of the 19th-century imperialist conquest of Africa is already well underway in an effort to profit from the natural wealth of the vast continent – to the detriment of those who live there.’

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