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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event to announce new cabinet nominations at the Queen Theatre in Wilmington, Delaware, December 11, 2020. /Getty When the time comes to evaluate U.S. President Joe Biden’s international legacy, one variable will be enormously significant: the relationship that his administration forges with China. …

Workers assemble cars at a workshop of FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Co., Ltd. in Changchun, northeast China’s Jilin Province, April 14, 2020. /Xinhua Last year’s COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, despite having a tremendous impact on everyone’s daily life, can be remembered as the time that gave the decisive acceleration to an ongoing economic, …

The number of people in South Sudan in need of aid has jumped from 7.5 million last year to 8.3 million, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. The landlocked country has a total population of just over 11 million. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) blames years …

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has expressed his government’s commitment to implementing global climate change adaptation initiatives. Kenyatta called for concerted global efforts in addressing climate change saying, like COVID-19, the challenge is a reality that the world must confront urgently. “Kenya commits to implement the adaptation action agenda; but we …

The African Heads of States and Governments pose during African Union (AU) Summit for the agreement to establish the African Continental Free Trade Area in Kigali, Rwanda, on March 21, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) African countries opened their markets on 1st January …

Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed (L, Rear) speaks during a press conference at Abu Khalifa Emergency Hospital in the northeastern province of Ismailia, Egypt, on Jan. 24, 2021. Egypt started on Sunday vaccinating medical staff with Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine at the hospital in Ismailia, according to a vaccination program …

The national flags of the United States and China fly along Pennsylvania Avenue near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, January 18, 2011. /Xinhua As relations between China and the United States sit at an all-time low due to provocations by the administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump, the new …

The Rwandan Biomedical Center (RBC) on Saturday launched free COVID-19 tests in the capital city Kigali on the elderly people aged 70 years and above and those with chronic diseases to ascertain the COVID-19 transmission among them. The RBC in partnership with the Kigali municipality has set a target to …

Vaccine ready for application against SARS-COV-2. The fight against COVID-19 pandemic in Africa could suffer setbacks amid inadequate access to vaccines occasioned by hoarding by rich nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa said that COVID-19 vaccines’ buying frenzy by rich …

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Botswana counterpart Lemogang Kwape. During the talks between President Mokgweetsi Masisi of Botswana and China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Gaborone, a co-operation agreement was signed on the “Belt and Road Initiative” between the two countries and China further undertook to actively assist …