By Hanane Thamik China has dramatically increased its presence in North Africa in terms of trade and investment over the past two decades. Pragmatism is perhaps the best word to describe Chinese-Moroccan relations. Because both parties are aware of the importance of the other and therefore try to use these …

One year ago, China and its African partners voiced a willingness to work together to build a China-Africa community of health for all at the Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity Against COVID-19. One year on, the two sides have supported each other with good faith in the pandemic fight, further …

Hamzah Rifaat Hussain A health worker holds a bottle at the FF Ribeiro Clinic at Sammy Marks Square vaccination site in Pretoria, South Africa, May 25, 2021. /VCG In May 1994, millions of South Africans, regardless of race, color or creed, capitalized on an agreement reached between the then President …

Xi Jinping leads other Communist Party of China (CPC) and state leaders Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji, Han Zheng and Wang Qishan to review the Party admission oath after visiting an exhibition on CPC history themed “staying true to the founding mission” at the Museum …

Exhibitions and celebrations are well underway in Beijing and Shanghai as the Communist Party of China (CPC) is set to embrace its centenary on July 1. An exhibition on the history of the CPC opened on Friday in Beijing, showing how the CPC has united and led the Chinese people …

By Shakeel Ahmad Ramay  A passenger train is seen on a bridge of the Chinese-built railway linking the Kenyan capital Nairobi with Mombasa and Naivasha in 2017. CHEN CHENG/XINHUA The world’s huge infrastructure gap is widening with every passing year by about $350 billion, with the total gap projected to …

File photo Kenyan and Somali foreign ministers spoke on phone Wednesday where they resolved to improve bilateral ties between the two neighboring countries. Kenya’s foreign affairs cabinet secretary Raychelle Omano and Somali foreign minister Mohamed Abdirizak Mohamud reaffirmed the need to expeditiously reopen their two respective missions. “The ministers expressed …

Medical supplies donated by China are unloaded from a plane at Robert Mugabe International Airport in Harare, Zimbabwe, on May 11, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhang Yuliang) “China has walked its talk with African countries and other developing countries around the world in an effort to manage this pandemic,” said Cavince Adhere, a …

The government has officially applied for a $571 million (about Sh1.3 trillion) loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help in tackling economic challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. Finance Minister Mwigulu Nchemba confirmed to The Citizen  that the application had been lodged, promising to issue a detailed account of …

by  Chen Chen The crewed spacecraft Shenzhou-12, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, is launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China’s Gobi Desert, June 17, 2021. (Xinhua/Ju Zhenhua) China’s purpose of space exploration has all along been the peaceful use of what many call the final frontier …