By H.E. Ren Yisheng, Recently, the State Council Information Office of China released the white paper “China’s International Development Cooperation in the New Era”, introducing China’s actions and contributions in international development cooperation since 2013, and explaining the concepts and policy propositions of China’s international development cooperation in the new …

By MA HANZHI Trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) started on Jan 1 this year. Out of the 55 members of the African Union (AU), 54 have signed the treaty, Eritrea being the sole exception. So far, 34 countries have ratified the agreement, including the largest economies …

Dr Efem Ubi, Director of Research, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, says the allegation by critics that Nigeria is gradually ceding her sovereignty to China on account of excessive borrowing is untrue. Ubi made this assertion on Friday in Abuja in a presentation at a round table organised by the …

A train station in suburban Abuja, Nigeria, July 26, 2016. /Xinhua The Africa-China cooperation is described as a relationship between two partners in which Africa wants to gain from China’s development model and circumvent western pressure, to make political and economic reforms such as infamous structural adjustment, through Chinese soft …

By Herieth Makwetta The construction of Tanzania’s first phase of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) from Dar es Salaam to Morogoro is expected to be completed and operational this year, after the Government released Sh274 billion to the contractors. This was said by the government spokesperson Dr. Hassan Abbas on …

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) Moussa Faki Mahamat discussed on Sunday preparations for the upcoming AU Summit, dispute about Ethiopia’s Nile dam and recent developments in the continent. During a meeting in Cairo, Sisi and Mahamat exchanged views on a number of African …

As a new administration has taken office in Washington, U.S. experts, in their recent conversations with Xinhua, have been calling for seizing the opportunity to bring bilateral ties back on track. In areas ranging from trade and investment to people-to-people exchanges, the China-U.S. relationship is at a low point rarely …

The swearing-in of Xiaomei Harvard in the National Assembly as the member of parliament (MP) was an indication of the ANC’s “multicultural” position, said a South African analyst. “This simply shows our politics and the ANC as a multicultural party,” Ralph Mathekga, an independent political analyst told Xinhua. Speaking on …

Google has committed $10 million (1.1 billion Kenyan shillings) to support economic recovery in Kenya, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet said.  Pichai made the announcement on Wednesday, during a virtual meeting with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, aimed at seeking ways the tech giant could assist Kenyan businesses and communities …

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent stood at 3,515,047 as of Friday, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. According to the agency’s dashboard, the death toll related to the pandemic in Africa was at 89,993 on Friday. A total of 2,990,890 …