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By Mweusi Karake My ex-boss and mentor, Erastus Mwencha, whom I worked under as Secretary General of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), as his first Public Relations officer, the position that I held under him form entire 10 years of service at COMESA, when his COMESA …

Country became the world’s largest trading nation in 2013, a position previously held by the US. In Summary •China has been the largest exporter of goods in the world since 2009, which according to World Bank estimates amounted to US Dollars 2.641 trillion in 2019. •Indeed, companies that rely heavily …

His Excellency Ren Yisheng Not long ago, the 19th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee convened its Fifth Plenary Session. It has made arrangements for the formulation of the “14th Five-Year Plan” for national economic and social development and long-range goals for 2035, and proposed new development stages, new …

SONG CHEN/CHINA DAILY Since its founding, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation has proved to be an effective platform for deepened and upgraded interaction In May 2000, the British magazine The Economist released an issue with a cover labeling Africa “the hopeless continent”, which suggested that the world might give up …

Africa and China intensively working and excelling their cooperation via economic, industrial zones, modern agriculture, innovation, technology, tourism and energy cooperation projects, social benefits of infrastructure and other tremendous ties. The ground breaking and unveiling ceremony for the China aided Project of African CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) …

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, speaks during the annual Central Economic Work Conference in Beijing, capital of China. The annual Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing from Dec. 16 to 18. (Xinhua/Huang …

As the year is drawing to a close, China’s economic rebound from COVID-19 is gathering pace as mirrored by improvements in key growth figures, which, for many market watchers, are a boon for the world economy still scrambling to shake off the severest recession in nearly a century. In the …

By HOU Tao, Duse, a remote town in Northeast Kenya with a population of around 3,000 people, had no connectivity until 2017, when RuralStar, a solution providing remote broadband coverage, was launched and brought transformational impact. The nurse working at the local dispensary can now place orders online whenever medicine …

Rwanda has, for years, been a victim of blanket judgments and facile generalizations. Commentators, even amongst those willing to admit meaningful progress in the lives of Rwandans, have paradoxically refused to acknowledge the democratic credentials of Rwanda’s administration.  We live in a world where radical individual freedom has been preferred …

Wheat is sprayed with fertilizer at Ivordale Farm on August 1, 2018 outside Harare, Zimbabwe. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)  Zimbabwe has been urged to accelerate adaptation to climate-smart agriculture in order to boost economic growth. Speaking at a webinar on Investment Priorities for Climate-Smart Agriculture in Zimbabwe, World Bank …