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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South Africa: Gupta Brothers Arrested in the UAE
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 …
Read More »Book of Xi’s discourses on rural work published
Published:June08,2022 By CAO DESHENG A farmer reaps wheat with a harvester in Xixian county, Xinyang city, central China’s Henan province. [Photo/Xinhua] A book of President Xi Jinping’s insights about work related to agriculture, rural areas and farmers has been published and made available nationwide. The book, compiled by the Institute …
Read More »Kenya re-routes power lines to protect flamingos and other birds
Published:June07,2022 Kenya’s state-run electricity distribution company is re-configuring power lines to prevent the electrocution of birds such as flamingos, pelicans and cranes. The Kenya Power and Lighting Company. has re-routed a 33 kilovolt power line outside Lake Nakuru National Park to prevent flamingos and pelicans from flying into it, the company …
Read More »How China is becoming credible climate pioneer?
Published: June 07,2022 By Emilia Fernandez A jogger runs in an ecological park in Yongchuan District of southwest China’s Chongqing, May 6, 2022. /Xinhua Half a century ago, in 1972, the first UN Conference on the Human Environment decided to designate June 5 as World Environment Day. Since then, this day …
Read More »CMG launches media action on World Environment Day
Published:June06,2022 Discussion settles on aligning media’s role with other sectors Major news companies of Africa have teamed up with the China Media Group (CMG) in rolling out a joint initiative in environmental protection. “Speaking for Nature Media Action for China-Africa Environment Protection” was launched in Kenya’s capital Nairobi as part …
Read More »China responds to Blinken statement on rules based order
Published:June 06,2022 By Staff writer US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently said at the Foreign Affairs Magazine Centennial Celebrationthat China posed “the most serious long-term challenge to that rules-based order,” which China made China to respond asking the US official to focus on their own domestic challenges. “We hope the US stop wasting the time and focus on …
Read More »AU expresses deep concern over complex humanitarian situations in Africa
Published:June06,2022 The African Union (AU) on Friday expressed deep concern over the complex humanitarian situations in the African continent. The urgent call was made by the AU’s Peace and Security Council in a statement issued on Friday that followed its recent meeting that dwelt upon the state of humanitarian actions in …
Read More »Chinese company marks Children’s Day with Ethiopian school children
Students of Jemo No. 2 Elementary School visit the Furi-Lebu Railway Station in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, as part of the Children’s Day celebrations, June 1, 2022.(Xinhua/Michael Tewelde) Chinese construction giant China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) on Wednesday celebrated Children’s Day by inviting Ethiopian school children to visit …
Read More »China, US have much to gain from healthy competition
Published:June03,2022 By Shen Dingli Staff members chat behind Chinese and US flags displayed at the 2021 China International Fair for Trade in Services in Beijing, on Sept 4, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] Delivering a speech at the George Washington University on May 26, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed the Joe …
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