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A row is brewing between Zambia and Dangote
Cement, a major employer in Africa’s second largest copper producer, after a
government minister accused an executive at the local unit of the Nigerian
company of attempting to bribe him.
The dispute appears to be the latest in a string
of incidents in which the southern African nation’s government has resorted to
strong-arm or unorthodox tactics against foreign investors it believes are
circumventing labour laws.
Dangote Industries Zambia has 400 workers building
a $400m cement plant, a staff count that should rise to 2,000 when production
starts in November, deputy industry minister, Miles Sampa, told Reuters.
