Why has China built a ghost town in Africa?

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Why has China built a ghost town in Africa? Eerie footage shows brand new Angolan city designed for 500,000 lying empty

Nova Cidade de Kilamba has 750 eight-storey blocks of apartments
But it has no residents, and the £75,000 cost is too much for slum-dwellers
Fears the £2.2billion project, built in three years, could lay empty for years
Just a fraction of the billions China has poured into Africa in recent years

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 03:02 EST, 4 July 2012 | UPDATED: 06:22 EST, 4 July 2012

It was supposed to be a state-of-the-art city for 500,000 - but eerie footage shows how a Chinese-built urbanisation is at risk of becoming Africa's first 'ghost town'.

Constructed on the outskirts of Angola's capital city Luanda, Nova Cidade de Kilamba has 750 eight-storey blocks of flats, a dozen schools and more than 100 shop units.

But, crucially, it has no residents, and many of the nearby slum-dwellers cannot afford the £75,000 price-tag to move in.