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African Union leaders have inaugurated a new $200m headquarters, paid for by China. The complex in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, is a symbol of China's rapidly changing role in the region as it turns increasingly to Africa to satisfy its appetite for natural resources.
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