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                 Illustration: Liu Rui/GT Editor’s Note: The deadline of the 90-day investigation into the coronavirus origins set by the Biden administration draws near, and US intelligence agencies are reportedly gearing up their efforts to compile a report. Do these intelligence agencies have the ability …

By Musonda Chibamba AAP Hakainde Hichilema has been sworn in as Zambia’s seventh president. Credit: EPA Zambia’s opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has taken his oath of office as the seventh president of the landlocked southern African country. The 59-year-old veteran politician defeated outgoing president Edgar Lungu by more than a million votes in the elections held earlier this month. The inauguration ceremony …

By Africa China Review staff Reporter  A few years ago, China’s capital city Beijing was among the most polluted cities in the world with dense smog and acrid air which paused health hazards to the city dwellers. The story is different today. The skies of Beijing are most of the time blue a sign that the environment has …

Nigeria Health Watch Nigeria achieved polio-free status on June, 18, 2020, and the WHO celebrated the milestone at the 71st session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa. African Health Ministers and representatives from countries gathered Tuesday  for the Seventy-first session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa, the …

Richard A. Black, the Schiller Institute’s representative at the United Nations in New York, speaks during an interview in South Hackensack, New Jersey, the United States, on Aug. 20, 2021. There is a fulfillment of the United Nations (UN) Charter spirit in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), said the …

By James K. Galbraith Taliban fighters are seen in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, August 17, 2021. /Xinhua Now that so many sad truths about Afghanistan are being spoken aloud, even in the major media – let me add one more: The war, from start to finish, was about politics, not in …

Advocacy groups add their voices to nearly 100 lawmakers who say the programme unfairly targets Asian-Americans based on race and ethnicity• The initiative was established to investigate threats to national security and has charged scores of scientists and scholars. Former University of Tennessee professor Hu Anming, whose case has given fresh momentum to calls …

Hakainde Hichilema’s decisive election victory, which made him the eighth president of Zambia in the post-colonial era, is a gust of good news that Africa and the world badly needed. His win is an endorsement of democracy in a region where we’ve seen so many other countries move depressingly in the other direction.And he did it …

FILE PHOTO: An aerial view shows settlements in the Salabani village where the rising water levels of Lake Baringo flooded displacing entire villages near Marigat, Baringo county on the Kenyan Rift Valley. /Getty Images Kenya is witnessing a spike in both infectious and non-communicable diseases as the climate crisis escalates …

By Stephen Ndegwa Kandahar Airfield, a NATO-led coalition forces’ military base, in Daman district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan, April 15, 2021. /Xinhua As Afghanistan gradually starts returning to normalcy, the international community is looking towards its biggest neighbor, China, as one of the major players set to help in the …