Staff members unload containers of COVID-19 vaccines from China in Minsk, Belarus, Feb. 19, 2021. (Photo by Henadz Zhinkov/Xinhua) China is exporting COVID-19 vaccines to 27 countries and providing free vaccine aid to 53 countries in need, foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Tuesday. Wang told a press briefing …
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Rwanda rebel group FDLR blamed for assassination of Italian ambassador to DR Congo
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has blamed Rwandan militia based in the country’s east for the attack on a UN convoy on Monday, February 22, in which an Italian Ambassador was killed. Italian ambassador, Luca Attanasio, and a military policeman – also Italian – who was travelling …
Read More »Ugandan president meets with senior Chinese diplomat on bilateral ties
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (R) meets with Yang Jiechi, 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, in Entebbe, Uganda, Feb. 21, 2021. (Photo by Hajarah Nalwadda/Xinhua) Ugandan …
Read More »China keeps promise to developing countries
At the opening of the 73rd session of the World Health Organization’s World Health Assembly in May last year, President Xi Jinping said that once COVID-19 vaccine development and deployment was completed in China, the vaccine would be made available as a global public good to developing countries. That promise …
Read More »Africa: Take your future into your hands, fight or perish: Lessons from COVID-19.
“Global vaccine apartheid is unfolding. People’s lives must come before profit” screamed a headline blog by the head of UNAIDS, Winnie Byanyima. Ms Byanyima is challenging the ideals on which post World War II was founded on. Promote western capitalists ideals. Sorry my sister you are right, profit come before …
Read More »China to continue to support Senegal’s economic stabilization – Chinese ambassador
China will continue to support Senegal in its efforts to stabilize its economy, promote employment and preserve the well-being of the people, and will continue to support it to develop into an emerging country, said Xiao Han, Chinese ambassador to Senegal. In an article published in the newspaper Le Soleil, …
Read More »China becomes EU’s biggest trade partner in 2020
Photo taken on Oct. 25, 2019 shows the arrival ceremony of the first freight train of the China Railway Express (Yiwu-Liege) Alibaba eWTP Cainiao from eastern China’s Yiwu in Liege, Belgium. (Xinhua/Pan Geping) While China’s total goods imports and exports expanded 1.9 percent year on year to 32.16 trillion yuan …
Read More »Digital vaccine passports get more consideration globally
An AEMT with the Texas Department of State Health Services injects the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine into a patient in Arlington, Texas, US on Feb 12, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] Governments and airlines worldwide may soon require a vaccine passport that proves a person has been given a COVID-19 vaccination before being allowed …
Read More »WHO roots for training of African health workers to boost COVID-19 vaccine roll-out
A seamless roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine in Africa hinges on improving the knowledge of the continent’s frontline health care workers in critical areas like storage, supply chains management and effective communication to the public, the World Health Organization (WHO) official said. Ambrose Talisuna, emergency preparedness programme manager at WHO Regional …
Read More »Senegal receives first batch of Chinese COVID-19 vaccin
Senegalese Gendarmes watch as a shipment of medical supplies donated to Africa to help fight with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from Chinese billionaire Jack Ma and the Alibaba Foundation arrives on a plane from Ethiopia at Blaise Diagne international airport in Thies, Senegal March 28, 2020.REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra Senegal on Wednesday …
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