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 …

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 …

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 …

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) …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The world today, is almost at a standstill where the movement of people from one continent or country to another is no longer possible. Movement between cities of one country is also limited.  Airlines have suspended flights, economic activities have been halted and many countries seem to be in a …

The whole world is in a panicky mode and life almost on a standstill with hundreds of cities under lockdown, in fighting the war against Corona Virus (COVID-19), which was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a global pandemic.  China first struggled alone to fight the epidemic especially …

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the Chinese Government has regarded the safety and health of the people as our top priority. We have taken a series of decisive and rigorous prevention and control measures. The speed, intensity and coverage of China’s response have been unprecedented in the world. Under the …