Ventures Africa posted on 10 February 2020 an article titled "The US and China Fight over Rights to Build the Headquarter for the Africa CDC" by Damilola Ekpo.
The United States has been the principal financial backer of the Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention and assumed it would build the $80 million headquarters in Ethiopia. China reportedly stepped in and said it wanted to build the structure. An unnamed US administration official said China stepped in and offered to construct the headquarters so that it could steal scientific data as it allegedly did after it built the African Union conference center in Addis Ababa.
