The Chinese government has displayed a sense of responsibility, a quick response to people’s needs and the ability to manage and coordinate during the COVID-19 epidemic, especially during the days when Wuhan, the hardest hit city on the Chinese mainland, was sealed off last year, said African students who stayed …

Chinese peacekeepers clear the ruins of the port explosions in Beirut, Lebanon, Sept 30, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] By LIU YINMENG in Los Angeles China’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations on Tuesday announced that the country has paid in full its annual contributions and various assessments to the UN, demonstrating a …

His Excellency LU Kun is the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana Ghana and China established diplomatic relations since 1960 with both countries providing diplomatic and material supports to one another. Since the 2000s, the volume of Chinese trade and investment in Ghana has increased with many high level official visits from …

Photo taken on Dec. 9, 2020, shows a port undergoing construction in Lamu County, Kenya. (Xinhua/Charles Onyango A Chinese-built seaport in Kenya’s coastal Lamu County will be operational in June, a Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) official said in a recent interview. China Communications Construction Company has already completed construction of …

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 …

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” …

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 …

 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 …

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 …

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 …