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Published:September 07,2022 By Staff Writer The new Chinese ambassador to Rwanda, H.E Wang Xuekun, on Tuesday paid a courtesy call to the Secretary General of the ruling party- the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF- Inkotanyi) Hon. Francois Ngarambe. The meeting took place at the Party’s headquarters in Rusororo on the outskirts of the capital city Kigali.  Hon. Ngarambe thanked the Chinese envoy for the visit …

Published: September 05,2022 By Staff Writer  The dean of the School of Law at HuazhongUniversity of Science and technology in central China Hubei Province Wang Xigen, is among the intellectuals who have criticized the recent UN report that claims human rights abuses were committed in Xinjiang against ethnic monitories. Wang said the report doesn’t hold …

Published: September 01,2022 By Staff writer  After the US sent two ships through the Taiwan Strait in a so called ‘freedom of navigation’ exercise, the world saw this as an outright provocation of China which happened after the controversial visit to Taiwan by the US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Again it should be noted that, twelve days after …

Published: August 30,2022 By Gerald Mbanda After the controversial visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on August 2, the US has continued to provoke China by announcing arms shipment to Taiwan as well as sending warships in the Taiwan Straits which is an out right violation of “one China Policy.” After the U.S. …

Published:August 29,2022 By Adhere Cavince The Central African liner carries construction vehicles for export to Africa at Yantai Port, Shandong, July 19, 2022. /CFP Earlier this week, August 23, 2022 the China-Africa Business Council (CABC) launched a report on how to unlock Africa’s supply chains to compete more effectively, globally. In the past two …

Published: August 25,2022 By Staff writer  The African continent has improved infrastructure development, through cooperation with China under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), African experts said, in a one day virtual meeting that brought together African, Chinese and Pakistan experts.   The virtual meeting was the first of its kind organized …

Published: August 22,2022 By staff writer  Allegations that China is overseeing the forced labourof Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang are “credible and persuasive”, a UN expert on slavery Tomoya Obokata, a Japanese academic, who is a special rapporteur for the United Nations, wrote. In a report to the UN General Assembly the special rapporteur on contemporary forms …

Published: August 18,2022 By Staff writer  The visit by the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to three African countries namely; South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, was less about cooperation, but more of US geopolitical interests of countering China and Russia influence in Africa.  Blinken who was in South …

Published: August 15,2022 By George Nsamba The effects of the Belt and Road Initiative(BRI) have continued to be felt all over the world especially in Africa as a developing continent and in Southern Africa in particular. This article will highlight some of the projects that have been undertaken in Southern African countries because of BRI and …

Published:August 11,2022 By Mweusi Karake Why does China inspire Africa? Before we discuss “BRI”, let me touch on why China inspires Africa in general. First of all, modern China is just about 73 years old. Thus not much older than most post-colonial African States. It would therefore, not be wrong to imagine that socially China …