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By Elias Makori Shinnosuke Ando / Unsplash Tokyo 2020 Olympics (file photo). Kenya featured prominently Sunday as curtains were drawn on the 32nd Olympic Games, with Tokyo organisers overcoming huge challenges, most significantly rising coronavirus cases and growing opposition to the staging of the world’s greatest sporting spectacle. There were …

By Zhao Ruinan Paramedics take a patient into the emergency center at Maimonides Medical Center during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, April 14, 2020. [Photo/Agencies] For more than a year, the United States’ battle against the COVID-19 pandemic has turned …

By Africa China Review Staff writer Nurse Wangyingmin (left) and Dr. Bailingxiao (right) examining a patient at Masaka Hospital.     Photo: August 4, (Africa China Review) As China and Rwanda get closer to celebrating 50 years of diplomatic relationship, Africa China Review visited Masaka Hospital located a few kilometres outside the …

By Hanane Thamik Morocco has stressed the importance of international cooperation in accelerating the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. The country has followed a cooperative approach based on the spirit of collaboration and adopted an integrated system for vaccine production and distribution, which it believes is key to meeting targets to …

By MO JINGXI  Donated doses of a COVID-19 vaccine from China’s Sinovac Biotech, as well as syringes, await unloading at an international airport in Zanzibar, Tanzania, on July 31, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua] Nation also to donate $100 million for efforts to ensure access to affordable inoculations President Xi Jinping said on …

The East African Business Council (EABC), a regional trade lobby, on Wednesday urged the East African Community (EAC) partner states to liberalize the air transport services to spur intra-regional trade. The EABC is the regional apex body of the private sector in the EAC member states of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, …

The much anticipated Cabinet reshuffle finally occurred on Thursday night when South African President Cyril Ramaphosa made major changes to his cabinet including the finance minister position. He said the country is facing several challenges such as accelerating vaccination program, ensuring peace and stability in the wake of the recent …

A medical worker takes a swab sample for a COVID-19 test at a testing site in Laishan District of Yantai, east China’s Shandong Province, Aug. 5, 2021. Yantai has started the second round of nucleic acid testing citywide for possible COVID-19 cases or asymptomatic infections. (Photo by Tang Ke/Xinhua) The …

By Mustafa Hyder Sayed There is a relentless campaign to malign, target and contain China with every opportunity that the U.S. government and its partners get. There is a clear and predictable pattern that is visible and is manifested in Washington’s narrative towards Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the false …

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad) has expressed concern over the potential environmental disaster posed to the Red Sea by the FSO Safer, an aging oil tanker moored off the western coast of Yemen. The oil vessel was abandoned off the Yemeni coast after the outbreak of …