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Xi Jinping leads other Communist Party of China (CPC) and state leaders Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji, Han Zheng and Wang Qishan to review the Party admission oath after visiting an exhibition on CPC history themed “staying true to the founding mission” at the Museum …

Exhibitions and celebrations are well underway in Beijing and Shanghai as the Communist Party of China (CPC) is set to embrace its centenary on July 1. An exhibition on the history of the CPC opened on Friday in Beijing, showing how the CPC has united and led the Chinese people …

By Shakeel Ahmad Ramay  A passenger train is seen on a bridge of the Chinese-built railway linking the Kenyan capital Nairobi with Mombasa and Naivasha in 2017. CHEN CHENG/XINHUA The world’s huge infrastructure gap is widening with every passing year by about $350 billion, with the total gap projected to …

File photo Kenyan and Somali foreign ministers spoke on phone Wednesday where they resolved to improve bilateral ties between the two neighboring countries. Kenya’s foreign affairs cabinet secretary Raychelle Omano and Somali foreign minister Mohamed Abdirizak Mohamud reaffirmed the need to expeditiously reopen their two respective missions. “The ministers expressed …

Medical supplies donated by China are unloaded from a plane at Robert Mugabe International Airport in Harare, Zimbabwe, on May 11, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhang Yuliang) “China has walked its talk with African countries and other developing countries around the world in an effort to manage this pandemic,” said Cavince Adhere, a …

The government has officially applied for a $571 million (about Sh1.3 trillion) loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help in tackling economic challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. Finance Minister Mwigulu Nchemba confirmed to The Citizen  that the application had been lodged, promising to issue a detailed account of …

by  Chen Chen The crewed spacecraft Shenzhou-12, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, is launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China’s Gobi Desert, June 17, 2021. (Xinhua/Ju Zhenhua) China’s purpose of space exploration has all along been the peaceful use of what many call the final frontier …

By Olusegun Obasanjo  Former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda. (Photo: EPA / STR) The demise of President Kenneth Kaunda at the grand old age of 97 brings to an end the pioneers and forefathers who led the struggles for the decolonisation of Africa and received the instrument of independence. Tonight, I …

By Gerald Mbanda Chinese Ambassador to Kenya His Excellency Zhou Pingjian speaks at a seminar commemorating the centenary of the Communist Party of China at the University of Nairobi – Kenya on June 16, 2021. (Photo Credit: Chinese Embassy in Kenya) As the Communist Party of China (CPC) gets closer …

By David Ochieng Mbewa Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni and his counterpart from the Democratic Republic of Congo Felix Tshisekedi on Wednesday commissioned a road infrastructure development project between both nations. Museveni and Tshisekedi said the project will cause a “tremendous” change in the socio-economic transformation of the lives of the …