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By François Soudan On 17 January 1961, just sixty years ago, the first legally elected prime minister of the DRC was assassinated after being overthrown with help from Washington. A sinister episode that Larry Devlin, the ‘Mr. Congo’ of the CIA from 1960 to 1967, would reveal half a century later …

Photo taken on Oct. 21, 2019 shows an interior view of a warehouse at Kigali Logistics Platform in Kigali, Rwanda. (Photo by Cyril Ndegeya/Xinhua) “The digitization proposed by the BRI could have a transformative effect because partner nations will benefit from the world-class innovations developed by China,” Kenyan expert Edward …

By Adhere Cavince Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has concluded a five-nation visit to Africa, extending a three-decade tradition in which Chinese foreign ministers have chosen Africa for the first overseas visit each year. In choosing to visit Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Botswana, Tanzania …

A visiting Chinese medical expert shares experience with her Guinean counterparts at the China-Guinea Friendship Hospital in the national capital Conakry in August. XINHUA The demands of responding to the coronavirus appeared to pose challenges for both China and Africa. Instead, the challenges thrown up by the pandemic have presented …

By: Mweusi Karake Wednesday 6th January 2011, will go down in history when the world biggest empire was left naked. The whole world watched shocked, some amused, others bewilder that what we were seeing in TV screens was happening in the so called leader of “ free world”’, the  dis- …

The warm receptions State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi received during his visits to Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Tanzania and Seychelles from Monday to Saturday last week has driven home the message that the friendship between China and Africa remains strong. Assisting Africa and seeking common …

Editor’s note: Is there a debt crisis happening in Africa as many media outlets claim? Has the deluge of Chinese credit fueled the situation? Carlos Lopes, a renowned Bissau-Guinean economist who headed the UN’s Economic Commission for Africa from 2012 to 2016, shared his views with CGTN. Below is an …

China on Sunday issued a white paper on the country’s international development cooperation. Titled “China’s International Development Cooperation in the New Era,” the white paper, released by the State Council Information Office, consists of eight chapters and expounds on China’s views on international development cooperation in the new era, the …

By Hilderbrand Shayo CHINESE State Councillor and Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, two-day visit to Tanzania last week, in my view, reiterates China’s President, Xi Jinping vision since, first and second appointed as China President in 2013. These high profile trips and other top state officials to visit African, and in …

By Tichaona Maume Since the inception of the liberation struggle in Rhodesia, the relationship between Zimbabwe and China was forged to higher extremes. Subsequently, Zimbabwe established diplomatic and economic relations with China and when Zimbabwe got its independence in 1980, the cordial relationship between the two countries became more solidified …