Published:June16,2022 The African renewable energy sector is booming and Chinese companies can benefit from that. Africa Turns To China For Renewable Energy Investments  With Africa attracting only 2% of the global renewable energy investments, the continent is aspiring to increase its installed capacity but it needs capital, Chinese among others, …

Published:June15,2022 By Luo Shanshan, Wang Junling Photo shows workers busy with production in the workshop of a Japanese-funded company in Songjiang district, east China’s Shanghai, May 15, 2022. (People’s Daily Online/Cai Bin) Farsighted multinationals don’t want to miss the opportunity to invest and operate in China. Data from China’s Ministry …

Published:June15,2022 By Philipp Sandner John Isaac/UN Photo A member of the Dogon tribe in southern Mali uses indigenous techniques to grow vegetables and millet. Drought, COVID-19 and the Russian war against Ukraine are fomenting a hunger crisis in Africa. The continent has enough fertile soil and water to meet its …

By Staff writer The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the UN World Food Program (WFP), and the Famine Early Warning System Network said in a statement recently, that millions of people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia face starvation due to severe drought. …

By Antony Sguazzin  China provides affordable goods, invests in infrastructure Survey covers 18-to-24-year-olds on world’s youngest continent A Chinese flag in front of the Shanghai Railway Station in Shanghai, China. China has overtaken the US as the foreign power seen as having the biggestpositive influence in Africa by young people, according …

Published: June13,2022 By staff writer China condemned US arms sale to Taiwan in a bid by the US administration to make Taiwan independent. The warning was delivered by Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe when he met his US counterpart Lloyd Austin on the sidelines of the 19th AShangri-La Dialogue security …

Published: June13,2022 The Chinese-built 480-km Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) has been at the heart of Kenya’s quest for economic revival, five years after its launch on May 31, 2017, a railway official has said. James Siele, Kenya Railways Business, Commercial & Operations Expert-Team leader, said the China-built modern railway …

Published:June 12,2022 Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday encouraged young people to contribute to building a high-level China-Africa community with a shared future. President Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks in a reply letter to students from the Former Liberation …

Published: June12,2022 African nations can leverage existing collaboration with China to transform their agricultural systems, tackle hunger, malnutrition, and boost rural incomes, a senior International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) official has said. Guoqi Wu, the associate vice-president of the Corporate Services Department at IFAD, said that Sino-Africa cooperation in …

Published:June11,2022 In a high-profile meeting on the sidelines of a key Asia security summit in Singapore on Friday, Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met for their first face-to-face talks since U.S. President Joe Biden took office in January 2021. Wei and his U.S. counterpart …