I'm firing from the hip here, but it seems that every major or middling capitalist state and/or its transnational corporate actors have their claws on African biological resources nowadays, from cropland to fisheries -- and rather than a new round of inter-imperial rivalry breaking out, it sure seems like there is a lot of consensual looting going on. North America, the EU, the Gulf States, and East Asia are all eager to squash the pirates.
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