Angola 2009
Chinese contractors and Angolan laborers work on an irrigation project for large-scale agricultural production along the banks of the Luena River. China has extended multibillion dollar loans to the Angolan government and in exchange is entitled to 70% of reconstruction contracts. There are hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers spread across the country rebuilding infrastructrue devastated by decades of civil war..Luena, Moxico Province, Angola. 22/07/2009..Photos © J.B. Russell