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What does President Xi’s speech at the World Health Assembly mean for China and the world?

On May 18, President Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the World Health Assembly (WHA), making key policy statements of how China has planned to engage with the rest of the world post COVID-19, and how China would preserve, protect and promote multilateralism and the fruits of globalization by …

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Hand in Hand on Covid-19 Fight for a Community of Public Health for Mankind

The battle against COVID-19 in Rwanda is on high gear. Under the leadership of President Paul Kagame, the Rwanda government has been consistently following the people-centered approach and taking science-based,comprehensive and rigorous measures, which haveachieved major progress in containing the pandemic. The latest statistics released by the Rwandan Ministry of …

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Africa’s Fast Rising Digital Economy Hooked On Mobile Adoption

Over time, digital technologies have grown exponentially globally, enabling new economic pathways and disrupting legacy sectors with efficiency and scale. In 2016, the World Bank estimated the global digital economy at USD 11.5 trillion, about 15.5% of the world’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), with a projected 25% contribution to the …

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AFRICA EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AFTER COVID-19

The Covid-19 pandemic around the world has raised risk management / Emergency preparedness questions that need to form part of our systems going forward. Numerous disasters have occurred and will continue to occur world-wide like Tsunamis, Hurricanes, floods and disease outbreaks like Covid -19 and Ebola. The world should by …

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China-Africa agree to work together to fight coronavirus COVID-19

A joint proposal on Africa and China Working Together to Fight Against COVID-19 was released in six languages online. More than 50 well-known scholars, think tank leaders and media representatives from China and 13 African countries, including South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, Mali, Tanzania, Somalia, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Ethiopia, South …

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China to Africa: “Through Solidarity We will Prevail”.

A Chinese emergency medical assistance team Arrived in Addis Ababa on 16th April 2020. Photo:  Courtesy. In the current global fight against the coronavirus pandemic, one message that has been echoed by many countries is that there is no single country that can win the war against the coronavirus (COVID19) …

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Upholding the Sino-African Solidarity in the Face of COVID-19 By : J. Alexander Nuetah

Recent reports from social and some mainstream media outlets have reported discrimination against Africans living in the commercial city of Guangzhou in Guangdong Province of China. The outcries led a Group of African Ambassadors in China to release an official protest to the Chinese Authorities on 10 April 2020. In …

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U.S. must do more in shaping post-COVID-19 world order

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 6, 2020. /AP On April 5, 2020, Fareed Zakaria, a political pundit and host of CNN’s popular show GPS, made some important assertions. He said that …

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Why the world needs to consider China an ally in COVID-19 fight

As much of the world goes into varying degrees of lockdown in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, little is certain. We don’t know how long these lockdowns will need to last, nor how our societies will change in the aftermath of the pandemic. Despite governments around the world introducing stimulus …

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