Published: June13,2022 The Chinese-built 480-km Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) has been at the heart of Kenya’s quest for economic revival, five years after its launch on May 31, 2017, a railway official has said. James Siele, Kenya Railways Business, Commercial & Operations Expert-Team leader, said the China-built modern railway …
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Published: June12,2022 African nations can leverage existing collaboration with China to transform their agricultural systems, tackle hunger, malnutrition, and boost rural incomes, a senior International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) official has said. Guoqi Wu, the associate vice-president of the Corporate Services Department at IFAD, said that Sino-Africa cooperation in …
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Published:June11,2022 In a high-profile meeting on the sidelines of a key Asia security summit in Singapore on Friday, Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met for their first face-to-face talks since U.S. President Joe Biden took office in January 2021. Wei and his U.S. counterpart …
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Published:June 11,2022 Kenya will begin to export livestock products from the Chinese-built Lamu Port in 2023, a government official said Wednesday. Harry Kimtai, the principal secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Cooperatives, told journalists in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, that the government has allocated 500 million shillings (4.27 million …
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Published:June 10,2022 By William Minter The war in Ukraine was among the topics discussed by South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in South Africa in May. SA Govt. From the ‘with us or against us’ frame to the disproportionate fallout of the commodities crisis, these countries …
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Published:June 10,2022 By Anzetse Were In this July. 21, 2018, file photo, a Senegal resident welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit to Dakar, Senegal. Credit: AP Photo/Xaume Olleros, File Beijing has succeeded by responding to African governments’ precise needs, against a backdrop of lingering mistrust of the West. The …
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Published:June 09,2022 Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Wednesday inspected the city of Meishan in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. In the morning, he visited the village of Yongfeng and San Su Ci, the memorial temple and former residence of Su …
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Published:June 09,2022 By Gerald Mbanda Road in Kigali city upgraded by China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC). Photo: (Africa-China Review) China and Rwanda celebrated 50 years of diplomatic cooperation last year 2021. The countries have strengthened cooperation in various fields for half a century. China is one of Rwanda’s largest …
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Published:June 09,2022 By Elizabeth Kamurungi & Arthur Arnold Wadero President Museveni delivers the State of the Nation Address in Kampala on June 7, 2022. PHOTO/PPU The President announced that the country had made the delayed leap into lower middle-income category. President Museveni yesterday struck an optimistic tone about Uganda’s economy and future, despite …
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Published: June08,2022 GCIS / Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0) Former president Jacob Zuma, left, Atul Gupta, centre, and former Eastern Cape premier Noxolo Kieviet at a function in 2012. The Department of Justice and Correctional Services has confirmed the arrest of alleged State Capture masterminds Rajesh and Atul Gupta at Dubai …
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