Elephants walk along the edge of one of the seasonal lakes on World Elephant Day at the Amboseli National Park (365 kilometres southeast of the capital Nairobi) near Oloitiktok in Kajiado East County on August 12, 2020. /AFP/Getty Images. Kenya has a total of 36,280 savanna elephants, the fourth largest population in the world after Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Tanzania …
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New Chinese vaccine 77 percent effective against Delta variant
By WANG XIAOYU Doses of the Sinopharm vaccine against the COVID-19 are seen. [Photo/Agencies] A late-stage clinical trial has found a three-dose Chinese vaccine developed by Chongqing ZhifeiBiological Products to be nearly 82 percent effective in preventing diseases related to COVID-19 and over 77 percent effective against the highly transmissible Delta variant of …
Read More »Zambia: Newly Elected President Hichilema Sacks Military, Police Chiefs
By Jerry Chifamba C. Mwakideu / Deutsche Welle A supporter of new Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema (file photo). Newly elected President HakaindeHichilema fired Zambia Police Service Inspector General Kakoma Kanganja and all service chiefs and their deputies barely a week after his inauguration. On Sunday, Hichilema announced the appointment of new army and airforce chiefs, as well as a new head of the southern African country’s defence wing. “I …
Read More »The West got it very wrong about Covidbringing an end to ‘Made in China’ goods
Tom Fowdy FILE PHOTO. FiJiaxing, Zhejiang province, China. © Reuters / Stringe Dial back to early 2020, and the Western media was full of predictions that the global supply chain would leave China because of Covid-19. That hasn’t happened… If anything, Beijing is in a stronger position than ever. Google just made …
Read More »Why China-Africa relations continue to thrive during the pandemic
photo courtesy: modernghana.com China and Africa have shown the world how a bilateral relationship can continue to thrive despite a raging pandemic.Ever since the outbreak of the pandemic, China and Africa have supported one another with good faith, further enriching their brotherhood. When China struggled to contain the pandemic within its borders, leaders …
Read More »Will America learn from Afghanistan? Doubtful.
By Anthony Moretti Flags encircling the Washington Monument fly at half staff a day after the death of U.S. service members in an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 27, 2021. /Getty Anyone who believes that the United States will learn something from the debacle that continues to unfold in Afghanistan needs to open their …
Read More »China says there are enough reasons to conduct COVID-19 origins study in U.S.
The People’s Republic of China flag and the U.S. Stars and Stripes fly along Pennsylvania Avenue near the U.S. Capitol in Washington during Chinese President Hu Jintao’s state visit, January 18, 2011. Hu arrived in the United States on Tuesday for a state visit with U.S. President Barack Obama that …
Read More »Kenya: Uproar as DP William Ruto’s Security is Downgraded
By By Vincent Achuka Deputy President William Ruto (file photo). Francis Nderitu/Nation Media Group The public fallout between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto went a notch higher yesterday after the State downgraded the DP’s security by withdrawing elite General Service Unit (GSU) officers guarding his residences. …
Read More »Xi stresses promoting Saihanba Spirit, striving for economic-social development goals
Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, talks with local residents while visiting Binhe community in Chengde, north China’s Hebei Province, Aug. 24, 2021. Xi made an inspection tour of Chengde City in Hebei Province from Monday to Tuesday. (Xinhua/Li Xueren) Chinese President Xi Jinping has …
Read More »Chinese doctors transform lives in South Sudan
Photo shows Dr. Sun Yangchun (R) operating the only colposcopy machine that detects cervical cancer at Juba Teaching Hospital, South Sudan, on April 16, 2021. (Xinhua/Denis Elamu) Chinese medical doctors’ presence in South Sudan over the past years has helped transform medical treatment, inspiring local doctors to interact with and learn a lot …
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