Image Credits: Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, via a tweet, announced that the company would be setting up a presence in Africa. “Twitter is now present on the continent. Thank you, Ghana and Nana Akufo-Addo,” he said. In a statement, Twitter says it is now actively …
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Chinese companies using majority of African workers in Africa
Workers of China Railway 20th Bureau Group Corp receive on-site safety training for a railroad project in Mozambique in September 2019. [Photo provided to China Daily] Chinese construction companies provide large numbers of employment opportunities in Africa, said a report titled “Chinese firms and African labor are building Africa’s infrastructure” …
Read More »African leaders urge continent to produce its own COVID-19 vaccine
African Union Chairman Mousaa Faki Mahamat “Africa must put in place resources and measures to ensure it produces its own vaccines for the current crisis and the future,” Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said during Africa’s vaccine manufacturing virtual conference on Monday. During the conference, leaders …
Read More »Chinese model of engagement with African countries genuine — Ugandan party official
Richard Todwong, deputy secretary general of Uganda’s ruling National Resistance Movement party, receives an interview with Xinhua in Kampala, Uganda on March 24, 2021. (Photo by Lu Jicheng/Xinhua) “At the moment, you can drive from one corner of Uganda to another border on tarmac, mainly built by Chinese companies,” said …
Read More »Africa is more indebted to western countries than China
By Gerald Mbanda In recent years, Western media has produced several headlines on Africa’s debt with China and the story lines suggest that African countries have been “recolonized by China” due to the debt burden, and therefore, African countries should re-think their relationship with China because China is bad. Some …
Read More »Booming China-Africa logistics offers lifeline, economic promise for Africa
Ethiopia’s national flag carrier Ethiopian Airlines has recently transported a batch of COVID-19 vaccines from Beijing to Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.So far, China has provided COVID-19 vaccines to more than 30 African countries. Smooth logistic routes between China and Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic have helped African countries fight …
Read More »The Truth and Nature of Xinjiang-related Issues
By H.E. Ren Yisheng, Recently, some Liberian media have reprinted some false information about China’s Xinjiang. In order to help African and Liberian friends know a real Xinjiang, it is necessary to clarify the truth so that it can be viewed and heard squarely. For a period of time, out …
Read More »Tanzania’s U-Turn on Covid-19 Gets WHO and Africa CDC Support
A mural to raise awareness about coronavirus in Dar es Salaam. Photographer: Ericky Boniphace/AFP/Getty Images Tanzanian leadership’s about-turn on the coronavirus received support from the World Health Organization and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, which could help the country obtain vaccines and start to catch-up with other nations on the continent. The …
Read More »Xinjiang genocide’ claim a malicious lie
SHI YU/CHINA DAILY By Fu Zhu In January 2021, on his final full day in office, as his parting salvo, the former lame-duck US secretary of state Mike Pompeo dropped a bombshell by falsely accusing China of “genocide” in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Afterward, a few Western politicians, media …
Read More »U.N. concerned about reports of abuses against civilians in Mozambique
The United Nations expressed its concern about mounting reports of human rights abuses against civilians in northern Mozambique since an escalation of violence last month. Some of the abuses include allegations of beheadings and the use of child soldiers during attacks by non-state armed groups in the town of Palma …
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