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A train station in suburban Abuja, Nigeria, July 26, 2016. /Xinhua The Africa-China cooperation is described as a relationship between two partners in which Africa wants to gain from China’s development model and circumvent western pressure, to make political and economic reforms such as infamous structural adjustment, through Chinese soft …

By Herieth Makwetta The construction of Tanzania’s first phase of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) from Dar es Salaam to Morogoro is expected to be completed and operational this year, after the Government released Sh274 billion to the contractors. This was said by the government spokesperson Dr. Hassan Abbas on …

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) Moussa Faki Mahamat discussed on Sunday preparations for the upcoming AU Summit, dispute about Ethiopia’s Nile dam and recent developments in the continent. During a meeting in Cairo, Sisi and Mahamat exchanged views on a number of African …

As a new administration has taken office in Washington, U.S. experts, in their recent conversations with Xinhua, have been calling for seizing the opportunity to bring bilateral ties back on track. In areas ranging from trade and investment to people-to-people exchanges, the China-U.S. relationship is at a low point rarely …

The swearing-in of Xiaomei Harvard in the National Assembly as the member of parliament (MP) was an indication of the ANC’s “multicultural” position, said a South African analyst. “This simply shows our politics and the ANC as a multicultural party,” Ralph Mathekga, an independent political analyst told Xinhua. Speaking on …

Google has committed $10 million (1.1 billion Kenyan shillings) to support economic recovery in Kenya, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet said.  Pichai made the announcement on Wednesday, during a virtual meeting with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, aimed at seeking ways the tech giant could assist Kenyan businesses and communities …

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent stood at 3,515,047 as of Friday, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. According to the agency’s dashboard, the death toll related to the pandemic in Africa was at 89,993 on Friday. A total of 2,990,890 …

The strong do what they will, the weak endure what they must, goes a saying. The West today considers itself strong and rich, relegating most countries in Asia, Africa, and South America to “third world” or “global south” status. Western countries would have us believe that their prosperity is due …

Natural remedies have become one of the popular ways for treating COVID-19 infections among a growing number of Malawians. People are using a mixture of ginger, lemons and garlic as a remedy to boost the human immune system among many treatments. The trend of using such remedies has been rooted …

The African Union on Tuesday called on Somalia and Kenya to embrace dialogue to ease tensions along the common border that resulted in the death of 11 people and several injuries on Monday. Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission also called on the two neighboring countries to …