Published:May29, 2022 By NDUMISO MLILO   Photo taken on Nov 22, 2021 shows facilities of the De Aar wind power project invested by China’s Longyuan Power and its South African partners in De Aar, South Africa. [Photo/Xinhua] Countries in southern Africa are keen to step up cooperation with China to spur industrialization …

Published:May29,2022 Chinese Ambassador to Tanzania Chen Mingjian (2nd R) and Tanzanian Minister for Culture, Arts and Sports Mohamed Mchengerwa (3rd L) sign a new implementation program for a cultural agreement in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on May 26, 2022. (Photo by Herman Emmanuel/Xinhua) The governments of China and Tanzania on Thursday signed a new implementation program …

Published: May28,2022 While growing up in a farming village in north-western Kenya, Tabitha Kiplimo had to defy entrenched gender stereotypes to prove that career success was not a preserve of her male peers.The 30-year-old electrical engineering major was recruited by the contractor of the 480-km Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) soon after …

Published:May 28,2022 African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamatholds a joint news conference after an international conference on the Sahel in Brussels, Belgium on February 23, 2018 [Eric Vidal/Reuters] Africa has become a “collateral victim” of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, further denting the continent’s ability to fulfil its “enormous promise and potential”, top officials of the …

Published:May 27,2022 By Benyamin Poghosyan   Villagers pick pomegranates in Qira town of Qira county in Hotan prefecture, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Oct 1, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua] Since Feb 24, the world’s attention has been focused on the Russia-Ukraine conflict and its negative implications on the world, including rising commodity and food prices, which have made millions …

Published:May 27,2022 By Xin Ping  People walk through Megenagna neighbourhood bus station in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Nov 3, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] As the COVID-19 pandemic takes its toll on Africa, not only precious lives have been lost, but also some of the world’s poorest countries are slipping further into the grip of a debt crisis. The …

Published:May26,2022 By HODAN OSMAN ABDI  WU BOHAO/FOR CHINA DAILY This year marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of the African Union. Over the past 20 years, China and Africa have made significant achievements in combatting the effects of climate change and enhancing agricultural cooperation. Africa is one of the …

Published:May 25,2022  The African Development Bank (AfDB) opened its 2022 annual meetings in the Ghanaian capital, Accra on Tuesday with top African statesmen, politicians, and technocrats in attendance. In his opening address, Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo urged the continental concessional lender to help Africa mobilize the badly-needed financial …

Published:May 25,2022 “There are many noble characters I wish to inherit from my father,” Xi Jinping, then governor of east China’s Fujian Province, said in a letter of felicitation to his father Xi Zhongxun on his birthday in 2001.  Xi Zhongxun was among the first generation of the Communist Party …

Published:May25,2022 By Staff writer United States President Joe Biden was in Japan on Monday, where he held talks with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Speaking in a news conference after the talks, the US president said that the United States would intervene militarily if China attempts to take Taiwan by …