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By Africa China Review staff Mr. Li Jianbo- Director General CRBC.  Photo: Africa China Review. Li Jianbo, the Director General of China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) has stayed in Rwanda since the late 1970s, working in different capacities in the construction and development of the country’s infrastructure. CRBC is …

Farmers work at a vegetable base in Longyou county, East China’s Zhejiang province, June 23, 2014. [Photo by Chen Shuihe/cpanet.org.cn] Poverty is a huge problem for countries all over the world, and poverty alleviation has long been a difficult task for the international community. People who live in extreme poverty …

The value of Kenya’s avocado exports jumped 93 per cent to Sh4.26 billion in the first quarter of this year compared to the previous period, data by the Horticulture Directorate shows, buoyed by improved demand in global markets. Kenya, which is ranked eighth globally in avocado production, exported 26,481 tonnes …

BY HAKU YIHENEW The stormy wind of lies blowing from the west in the name of human rights looks like to have the ill intention of destroying thriving peoples in non-western part of the world but it has also far-reaching ramifications of limiting humanity’s potential of creating a better world …

by Xinhua writer Wang Jiangang  Africa and China have an “unprecedented” opportunity for collaboration through the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, the AfCFTA chief has told Xinhua. Calling China “a strong partner to Africa,” Secretary-General of the AfCFTA Secretariat Wamkele Mene said that China has provided Africa with …

At the opening of the 73rd session of the World Health Organization’s World Health Assembly in May last year, President Xi Jinping said that once COVID-19 vaccine development and deployment was completed in China, the vaccine would be made available as a global public good to developing countries. That promise …

Peter Ben Embarek, WHO International Team Lead of the WHO-convened Global Study of the Origins of SARS-CoV-2 attends a news conference on the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Geneva, Switzerland, on Feb 12, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] The head of an independent international expert team, which has just completed its trip …

File Photo. Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) meets with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 5, 2018. (Xinhua/Ding Lin) Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday exchanged congratulatory messages with his Nigerian counterpart, Muhammadu Buhari, on the 50th anniversary of …

A Kenya Airways plane is seen at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo by Dennis Sigwe/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Kenya Airways (KQ) and privately held aerospace company Avianor have made history with the first-ever cabin cargo repurposing of a Boeing 787 into a so-called “preighter”. A “preighter” is …

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which officially came into place on 1st January 2021, will if implemented; be one of the largest trading blocs in the world. I am aware that my usage of “if” sounds pessimist, but as they say “once bitten twice shy”. I grew up …