China in Africa

I read a piece by Richard Dowden who was in Sweden last week on "Bokmässan". I have good insights on the situation in Africa and during the book fair he expressed the idea that journalists and NGO's (Red Cross, Oxfam) have a mutual agreement/conspiracy where they portrait the situation in Africa as worse than it is (see Hans Rosling), NGO's wants money - journalists wants to sell newspapers. China is in a race to get their hands on the resources in Africa while EU and US have virtually abandoned the continent. The article below concludes that is not only China that are benefiting from these deals, but the Africans as well. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6908835.ece