Published: February 1,2022 Michele Cattani / UNOCHA A young woman carries water in a camp for displaced people in Tillaberi region, Niger (file photo). Food insecurity is soaring across 20 countries and regions – “hunger hotspots”, where conflict, economic shocks, natural hazards, political instability, and limited humanitarian access, are putting millions of lives at …

Published: February 1,2022 By Rao Hongwe The Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) received a variety of personal protective equipment from China for fighting Covid-19 last year. China believes a just cause should be pursued for the common good of mankind. File photo The world is witnessing great changes not seen in a century. …

By Gerald Mbanda Are we about to live through another so called cold war, only this time between China and the Western powers, or is this kind of thinking itself stuck in the twentieth Century, when last cold war ended? Are we misunderstanding what is happening in 21st Century? The United Nations Secretary-General AntónioGuterress suggests that unless the Western world, America especially, …

Published: January 31,2022 By Andrew Korybko A medical worker shows a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 13, 2021. /Xinhua The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus popularly known nowadays as COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern two years ago on 30 January 2020. …

Published: January 30,2022 By Xin Ge Chinese President Xi Jinping talks with people in DuancunVillage, Fenxi County, north China’s Shanxi Province, January26, 2022. /Xinhua Chinese President Xi Jinping visited north China’s Shanxi Province ahead of the Spring Festival on January 26. President Xi has for 10 consecutive years visited people at the grassroots level, spoken with …

Published:January 30,2022 A picture of a section of Cairo, Egypt. /CFP Image The architecture projects of the China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) in Egypt have strengthened friendship and cooperation between China and Egypt, said a recent report issued by the Chinese firm CSCEC. In its 2020-2021 sustainability report dubbed …

Published: January 29,2022 By Peter Kagwanja Africa was still reeling under the yoke of colonialism when the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) was officially founded on July 1, 1921.  A hundred years later, modern China’s founding and governing political party still attracts modern Africa. CPC’s achievements and challenges carry seven enduring …

Published:January 29,2022 Celebrants paint eyes on a lion dancing mask while marking Chinese New Year at the China Cultural Center in Abuja, Nigeria on January 25, 2020. (Photo: Wang Guiping) The Chinese community in Nigeria held a carnival-like celebration Thursday  to mark the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year of Tiger. …

Published: January 28,2022 By staff writer China and Africa have maintained close relations over decades, through frequent exchanges of high level visits. Mutual understanding and trust have been enhanced, and friendly cooperation has yielded abundant fruits.  The successive leaders of China have all attached great importance to the development of …

Publsihed: January 28,2022 By Stephen Ndegwa The emblem of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games is displayed at Yongdingmen Square in Beijing, capital of China, January 17, 2022. /CFP As if the U.S. official boycott of the forthcoming Beijing Winter Olympics was not malicious enough, the country’s …