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Zambian minister, Dangote cement in spat over graft allegation

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.

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