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Published: December 20,2022 By Luke Anami and Berna Namata Rwandan President Paul Kagame who says that Africa has a right to seek partners and China is filling a gap for investment. PHOTO | KEVIN DIETSCH | GETTY IMAGES | AFP Rwandan President Paul Kagame was a vocal defender of Africa’s quest to expand its …

Published: December 20,2022 By  Jim Stenman  A man sits outside the office building of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat in Accra, the capital of Ghana, Aug. 17, 2020. (Ghana Presidency/Handout via Xinhua) The African Continental Free Trade Area has increased the appetite of Africa’s trading partners and the rush …

Published: December 19,2022 By Staff writer   History shows that Taiwan Island first appeared in Chinese records in AD239, when an emperor sent an expeditionary force to explore the area. After a relatively brief spell as a Dutch colony (1624-1661), Taiwan was administered by China’s Qing dynasty from 1683 to 1895. In 1895, Japan won …

Published: December 19,2022 By Edith Mutethya Josepheta Mukobe (left), principal secretary for the ministry of devolution and planning, and Liu Xianfa (right), the Chinese ambassador to Kenya, announce 16 million shillings worth of food donations for drought relief on April 7 in Nairobi. Liu Hongjie/China Daily. The Chinese community has yet again put a smile on …

Published: December 18,2022 By Leng Shumei and Shan Jie A worker pushes a cart past the China Pavilion of the second part of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Montreal, Canada, on Dec. 6, 2022. The second part of the 15th meeting …

Published: December 17,2022 South Sudan officials and experts  hailed the newly printed Chinese textbooks for primary education for reflecting the local context of the country. The English, Mathematics and Science textbooks printed by Shanghai Educational Publishing House for Primary 2 to 4 pupils have been lauded for depicting the real-life situation of …

published: December 17,2022 By Hafijur Rahman The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit is held in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 13, 2022. /CFP As part of U.S. President Joe Biden’s initiative to shore up the dwindling American influence in various parts of the world from Latin America to the Asia-Pacific through Africa and the Middle East, the …

Published: December 16,2022 The importance of biodiversity in human development can be gauged by the fact that over half of the world’s GDP comes from natural resources and the livelihood of over 3 billion people depends on marine and coastal biodiversity. However, the Earth’s ecosystem is under threat as the …

Published: December 16,2022 By Staff writer  On one of his country tours in December 2012, president Xi settled for simple meals that were affordable even to the ordinary people, rather than going for expensive menu that most heads of state prefer to take, given the privileges at their disposal. This week, media reports highlighted …

Published: December 16,2022 Chinese companies kicked off a two-day job fair in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, offering about 300 opportunities for Kenyan students. The recruitment fair was hosted by the Confucius Institute at the University of Nairobi with the support of 21 Chinese companies operating in Kenya. In his …