Published: February2,2022 By Keith Lamb People are enjoying Spring Festival lanterns show in Yuncheng, China’s Shanxi Province, January 29, 2022. /CFP Chinese New Year, commonly known as the Spring Festival, with its roots in China’s ancient Shang dynasty, goes back approximately 3,500 years. Steeped in legend, it is said that …

Published: February 2,2022 Revelers flocked to ring in the Chinese Lunar New Year and welcome the fast-approaching Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at a celebratory event hosted by the China Media Group in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday. Students at the Two Rivers Mall during the celebrations marking the Chinese New Year …

Published:February1,2022 The management of Africa China Review wishes all our Chinese friends a Happy and Prosperous Lunar New Year 2022. It is the year of the Tiger which symbolize strength and courage. China-Africa Cooperation and friendship will continue to grow as strong as the Tiger, in order to realize shared …

Published: February 1,2022 Michele Cattani / UNOCHA A young woman carries water in a camp for displaced people in Tillaberi region, Niger (file photo). Food insecurity is soaring across 20 countries and regions – “hunger hotspots”, where conflict, economic shocks, natural hazards, political instability, and limited humanitarian access, are putting millions of lives at …

Published: February 1,2022 By Rao Hongwe The Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) received a variety of personal protective equipment from China for fighting Covid-19 last year. China believes a just cause should be pursued for the common good of mankind. File photo The world is witnessing great changes not seen in a century. …

By Gerald Mbanda Are we about to live through another so called cold war, only this time between China and the Western powers, or is this kind of thinking itself stuck in the twentieth Century, when last cold war ended? Are we misunderstanding what is happening in 21st Century? The United Nations Secretary-General AntónioGuterress suggests that unless the Western world, America especially, …

Published: January 31,2022 By Andrew Korybko A medical worker shows a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 13, 2021. /Xinhua The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus popularly known nowadays as COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern two years ago on 30 January 2020. …

Published: January 30,2022 By Xin Ge Chinese President Xi Jinping talks with people in DuancunVillage, Fenxi County, north China’s Shanxi Province, January26, 2022. /Xinhua Chinese President Xi Jinping visited north China’s Shanxi Province ahead of the Spring Festival on January 26. President Xi has for 10 consecutive years visited people at the grassroots level, spoken with …

Published:January 30,2022 A picture of a section of Cairo, Egypt. /CFP Image The architecture projects of the China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) in Egypt have strengthened friendship and cooperation between China and Egypt, said a recent report issued by the Chinese firm CSCEC. In its 2020-2021 sustainability report dubbed …

Published: January 29,2022 By Peter Kagwanja Africa was still reeling under the yoke of colonialism when the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) was officially founded on July 1, 1921.  A hundred years later, modern China’s founding and governing political party still attracts modern Africa. CPC’s achievements and challenges carry seven enduring …