By Cellestine Olilo French President Emmanuel Macron says his country owes Africa, which it must now repay progressively. At the first-ever France-Africa Summit, that excluded politicians, the French leader said that Africa’s relations with France, one of its former colonial masters, has not always been beneficial for both sides, but said these …

By Fan Peng   A commemorative meeting marking the 110th anniversary of the Revolution of 1911 is held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Oct 9, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua] In the important speech to mark the 110th anniversary of the Revolution of 1911, President Xi Jinping summarized the historical experiences …

By Elizabeth Kamurungi Pixabay, Pixabay, GCIS/Flickr, Pixabay, Rachel Mabala/Daily Monitor, Keith Kasaija/Unsplash Kampala, Uganda flag, President Yoweri Museveni, Nile River, Kasese District. Uganda marked her 59th Independence anniversary, the second one devoid of the usual countrywide fetes because of restrictive measures instituted to curb the Covid-19 pandemic. The historic October 9 celebrations are to be marked in a “scientific manner”, …

By Asit K. Biswas and Cecelia Tortajada JIN DING/CHINA DAILY China has proven all the doomsayers wrong. It has not slid into stagnation like Japan or the Republic of Korea, as the doomsayers had predicted, because of two key factors. First is the intense competition in the private sector, which now accounts for 90 percent …

L’Observateur Paalga Thomas Sankara (file photo) The long-awaited trial for the murder of Thomas Sankara – assassinated in a coup d’etat which brought exiled former president Blaise Compaore to power – has been set for 11 October, military prosecutors have announced. Compaore and 13 others have been charged by a military tribunal over the death of Sankara – a charismatic revolutionary figure whom …

By Ma Min   Visitors attend the exhibition at the Memorial for the Site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai, which reopens on June 3, 2021. [Photo by GaoErqiang/chinadaily.com.cn] This year marks the 110th anniversary of the 1911 Revolution, a milestone in the long and …

PalFest/Wikipedia Zanzibari novelist and winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah (file photo). Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee”, the award-giving body said on Thursday. Gurnah, 72, was born in Zanzibar …

By Gerald Mbanda There have been stories circulating in sections of western media claiming that China has stolen Africa’s internet. The latest was published by Lapresse of US with a title, “Who stole Africa’s internet domain names? Fingers point to China” (October 1, 2021).  The stories allege that Millions of internet addresses assigned to Africa have …

Yang Jiechi (1st R), a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, meets with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan (1st L) in Zurich, Switzerland, on Oct 6, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua] …

China afforestation efforts turn arid places  greener China’s experience in reforestation and fighting desertification has injected lots of inspiration into Africa, which needs to curb the alarming expansion of the Sahara desert, Ethiopian experts have said.The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently estimated that by 2030, Africa will lose two …