A medical worker takes a swab sample from a woman at a COVID-19 nucleic acid testing site in Jiangning District of Nanjing, capital city of east China’s Jiangsu Province, Aug. 12, 2021. The district has launched a new round of COVID-19 testing since Wednesday. (Xinhua/Ji Chunpeng) China has made great contributions to the …

Stephen Ndegwa CFP Today, China has become renowned for its economic resilience and structural sustainability. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the country has risen from a poor country to not only the world’s second largest economy after the U.S., but also one of the top innovative economies …

By Jayanta Kalita On October 16, China launched a spacecraft with three astronauts (taikonauts) on board, including a woman, into the core module of what is believed to be China’s own future space station in the Earth’s orbit. The astronauts are expected to stay in space for six months, which is the …

By Nontobeko Mlambo Dmitry Feoktistov/TASS Host Photo Agency, US Army Africa, Pixabay King Mswati III, left and eSwatini army generals, top right (file (photo). South African President Cyril Ramaphosaand Chairperson of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Organ on Defence, Politics and Security Cooperation has appointed a special envoys to engage with King Mswati III of the Kingdom of eSwatini on security and political developments in the Kingdom. …

By SUN XIAOCHEN  Cai Qi, secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the organizing committee for the Beijing 2022 Winter Games, receives a torch lit with the Olympic flame from a staff member on Wednesday morning. A welcoming ceremony for the flame, which …

Chinese ambassador to Uganda Zhang Lizhong (2nd L), Uganda minister of state for primary health care Margaret Muhanga (3rd L) and the World Health Organization (WHO) country representative to Uganda Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam (1st L) attend the vaccines donation ceremony at the National Medical Stores in Entebbe, Uganda, Oct. 19, 2021. /Xinhua Uganda on Tuesday received a second …

Bobby Naderi Getty The irony is real. The United States government cannot instigate forever a culture of fear and ratchet up tensions and distrust between its Western allies and China. In yet another blow to President Joe Biden administration’s policymakers, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that Britain will not “pitchfork away” …

Bonface / Unsplash The report said East Africa’s glaciers had shrunk to less than 20 percent of their size since 1880. The three mountains which feature glaciers – Mount Kenya Massif in Kenya (pictured), the Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda and Kilimanjaro in Tanzania are “of eminent touristic and scientific importance,” it says. Climate change …

By Jessica Mbanda                   Photo: (Courtesy)  TikTok, created in 2016 by Chinese company ByteDance, became the world’s most downloaded app in April 2020, with more than 2 billion downloads on Apple’s App Store and Google Play.  On the app, users create 15 to 180-second-long …

By Mosima Rafapa Mosima Rafapa/GroundUp More than 200 people marched from Loftus stadium to the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Monday over the poor state of public health services. The TAC convened a demonstration march to the Union Buildings on Monday against corruption in the health system and failing public health facilities. The …