Africa faces a 470 million shortfall in Covid-19 vaccine doses this year after the Covax alliance cut its projected shipments, raising the risk of new and deadly variants, the WHO said on Thursday. Only 17 percent of the continent’s population will now be vaccinated by the end of this year, …

Aerial photo taken on Sept. 11, 2020 shows a view of downtown Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian) China’s economy maintained the trend of recovery in August despite disruptions from the COVID-19 epidemic and natural disasters, showing the resilience of the world’s second largest economy. The country’s industrial output …

By Benjamin Maiangwa Cia Pak / UN Photo Alpha Condé, President of the Republic of Guinea, addresses the high-level segment of the International Ebola Recovery Conference at the United Nations in July, 2015. The latest coup in Guinea and the reaction of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to suspend the country’s …

Africa China Review Staff writer The US and China are the two leading world economies. Naturally, the two economies are in competition for markets and raw material in other parts of the world. Such competition should be healthy free of quarrels, politicking and undermining each other.  The market forces should …

Joanne Levitan / IFAD Small-scale farmers in Tanzania are receiving support to improve food security in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite efforts by regional governments to achieve food security through elaborate plans and policies, the region remains food deficient. Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Somalia are …

(File photo).Shutterstock ANALYSIS By Karolyn Tyson, Kevin Driscoll|| Magali Della Sudda|| Nuraan Davids|| Veronica Terriquez and Vivian Zayas A prestigious, private school in Pretoria, South Africa, recently became a site of protest. Black learners and parents accused Cornwall Hill College of rejecting calls to make its whites-only board more representative of its …

Photo courtesy: Internet.  Less than a month after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, the United States launched its “War on Terror” on a mission that sounds noble: to root out global terrorism.Two decades on, this sprawling war has largely fallen short of its original promise. Terrorism is still haunting the …

By Stephen Ndegwa  Lights illuminate buildings at night in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 24, 2021. /Getty The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating social and economic impacts on the world, but there also have been some surprising outcomes. While the pandemic has hit developed economies hard, developing countries have relatively …

BY YOHANES JEMANEH Looted Maqdala treasures returned to Ethiopia after 150 years. Photo: Smithsonian Magazine 3 days ago Ethiopia has restituted its national treasures that were looted in 1968 at the Battle of Mekdela. The heritages were handed over to the Embassy of Ethiopia in London by the Scheherazade Foundation. …

By Gerald Mbanda Hangzhou the capital city of Zhejiang Province located in the central eastern coast of China was recently rated as “The Best Meeting and Business City in China.” The ranking done by Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), showed Chinese cities with the greatest economic potential in a few years …