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Nearly 700 patients have been evacuated Saturday from Johannesburg’s Charlotte Maxeke Hospital, where a fire blazed through parts of the facility in South Africa’s largest city. No injuries or casualties have been reported. The fire has been contained but the hospital has been closed for seven days, said David Makhura, …

— China’s economy grew 18.3 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2021, as strong domestic and foreign demands powered recovery from a low base in early 2020 when COVID-19 stalled the world’s second-largest economy. — A strong start to the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) period, the double-digit …

FILE PHOTO: A picture of the logo of the International Monetary Fund. (Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images By David Ochieng Mbewa Sub-Saharan Africa will be the world’s slowest-growing region in 2021, with economic activity growing by 3.4 percent this year, according to a report released by the International Monetary …

The Chinese government has displayed a sense of responsibility, a quick response to people’s needs and the ability to manage and coordinate during the COVID-19 epidemic, especially during the days when Wuhan, the hardest hit city on the Chinese mainland, was sealed off last year, said African students who stayed …

His Excellency LU Kun is the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana Ghana and China established diplomatic relations since 1960 with both countries providing diplomatic and material supports to one another. Since the 2000s, the volume of Chinese trade and investment in Ghana has increased with many high level official visits from …

Photo taken on Dec. 9, 2020, shows a port undergoing construction in Lamu County, Kenya. (Xinhua/Charles Onyango A Chinese-built seaport in Kenya’s coastal Lamu County will be operational in June, a Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) official said in a recent interview. China Communications Construction Company has already completed construction of …

Image Credits: Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, via a tweet, announced that the company would be setting up a presence in Africa. “Twitter is now present on the continent. Thank you, Ghana and Nana Akufo-Addo,” he said. In a statement, Twitter says it is now actively …

Workers of China Railway 20th Bureau Group Corp receive on-site safety training for a railroad project in Mozambique in September 2019. [Photo provided to China Daily] Chinese construction companies provide large numbers of employment opportunities in Africa, said a report titled “Chinese firms and African labor are building Africa’s infrastructure” …

African Union Chairman Mousaa Faki Mahamat “Africa must put in place resources and measures to ensure it produces its own vaccines for the current crisis and the future,” Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said during Africa’s vaccine manufacturing virtual conference on Monday. During the conference, leaders …

 Richard Todwong, deputy secretary general of Uganda’s ruling National Resistance Movement party, receives an interview with Xinhua in Kampala, Uganda on March 24, 2021.  (Photo by Lu Jicheng/Xinhua) “At the moment, you can drive from one corner of Uganda to another border on tarmac, mainly built by Chinese companies,” said …