Published: February 16,2022 Uganda’s central bank on Monday said the country’s economy is on a strong rebound after the easing of COVID-19 restrictions that were closing out some sectors. Bank of Uganda in a monthly monetary policy statement for February said between the months of October 2021 and January 2022, …
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Beijing 2022: U.S. athletes are safer from COVID-19 in China than at home.
Published: February15,2022 By Staff Writer Organizing and holding Beijing 2022 winter Olympic Games during COVID-19 pandemic was not an easy job for China, regarding the safety of players from all over the world from contamination of the COVID-19 virus. U.S administration on a number of occasions pointed accusing fingers at …
Read More »Trade between Africa and China reached an all-time high in 2021
Published: February 15,2022 By Carlos Mureithi East Africa correspondent Trade between Africa and China rose to a record high last year, according to recently released data by China’s customs agency. China is Africa’s largest trading partner, and last year’s growth strengthens this position. The value of trade between Africa and China rose by 35% from 2020 …
Read More »WHO resumes airlifting critical medical supplies to Ethiopia’s Tigray
Published: February 14,2022 World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General TedrosAdhanom Ghebreyesus. By Tesfa-Alem Tekle Ethiopia Correspondent Nation Media Group The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday began airlifting 33.5 metric tons of essential medicines, medical supplies and equipment to Ethiopia’s northern Tigray State. According to a statement by WHO office in Addis Ababa, a first round of …
Read More »No one would buy America’s Quad ‘democracy’
Published: February 14,2022 Striving for a region anchored by democratic values, the 4th Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) foreign ministers’ meeting convened on Friday to tout ideological differences and confrontation in Asia. China’s “coercion” and “challenges” to so-called “democracy and rules-based order” tops the agenda of Friday’s event. “I think we …
Read More »Outcompeting US isn’t on China’s agenda. Improving its people’s livelihood is
Published: February 13,2022 By Dennis Meng Illustration: SHI YU/CHINA DAILY The epic war (431 to 405 BCE) between Athens and Sparta, chronicled by Athenian historian Thucydides in his History of the Peloponnesian War, was as inevitable as it was atrocious. The two sides were at daggers drawn for decades prior to the …
Read More »France, ECOWAS: The Blind Leading the Deaf in Mali’s Troubled Transition
Published: February 13,2022 By Lionel Manzi Gone are the days when the west celebrated the wave of coups that were propelled by mass protests – dubbed “the Arab Spring” – on the streets of Tunis, Cairo and Khartoum. Then, the protests were targeting what many in the west considered “authoritarian regimes,” and, …
Read More »Traditional Chinese culture inspires Winter Olympics torch design
Published: February 12,2022 Torch bearer Yang Yang (L) hands over the flame to the torch bearer Su Bingtian during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games at the National Stadium in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 4, 2022. (Xinhua/Xue Yuge) As audiences across the globe watch the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, the Beijing …
Read More »Africa moving toward control of COVID-19 says WHO director
Published: February 12,2022 Africa is moving to the “control phase” of the COVID-19 pandemic and increased vaccination rates will be crucial in helping the continent live with the disease, the World Health Organization’s Africa director Matshidiso Moeti said Thursday. “Although COVID-19 will be with us for the long term, there is light at …
Read More »Chinese envoy urges world to pay close attention to terrorist threats posed by ETIM/TIP
Published:February 11,2022 Zhang Jun, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations A Chinese envoy on Wednesday called on the international community to pay close attention to the terrorist threats posed by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement/Turkistan Islamic Party (ETIM/TIP).“We call on the Security Council and the international community to pay …
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