Day: December 18, 2025

Officials and experts from China and Africa on Sunday called for stronger scientific and technological cooperation to address desertification and land degradation, urging closer coordination to advance Africa’s Great Green Wall initiative. The calls were made at the fourth Taklamakan Desert International Forum, held in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, where participants stressed that desertification remains a shared global…

By Bereket Sisay It’s now almost two months since I came to China for five-months of professional journalism training. I came to China with a mixed feeling of contentment regarding my life in the second largest economy in the world while feeling suspicious regarding China’s dynamic zero-COVID policy. I had fears about how I passed through all…

For Samiri, a 12-year-old Tanzanian orphan, it was his first time seeing ultrasound machines and stethoscopes, as friendly Chinese doctors spoke softly through translators. The Ashura Orphanage Center, in Tanzania’s Dar esSalaam, hosts 73 orphans — 40 males and 33 females, aged between 4 and 20. Members of the Chinese medical teams from mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar came to…