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 …

Published:June 11,2022 Kenya will begin to export livestock products from the Chinese-built Lamu Port in 2023, a government official said Wednesday.  Harry Kimtai, the principal secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Cooperatives, told journalists in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, that the government has allocated 500 million shillings (4.27 million …

Published:June 11,2022 The summer harvest season is currently under way in China, and all eyes are on how the wheat and rapeseed harvest will turn out this year. According to data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, nearly 50 percent of the summer wheat has already been …

Published:June 10,2022 By William Minter The war in Ukraine was among the topics discussed by South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in South Africa in May. SA Govt. From the ‘with us or against us’ frame to the disproportionate fallout of the commodities crisis, these countries …

Published:June 10,2022 By Anzetse Were  In this July. 21, 2018, file photo, a Senegal resident welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit to Dakar, Senegal. Credit: AP Photo/Xaume Olleros, File Beijing has succeeded by responding to African governments’ precise needs, against a backdrop of lingering mistrust of the West. The …