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African health ministers root for enhanced vigilance to tame surging COVID-19 infections

Health ministers drawn from the sub-Saharan African region on Wednesday urged enhanced vigilance to curb transmission of COVID-19 that has been on the upsurge in the continent. The ministers said that robust surveillance combined with political goodwill, research and information sharing is key to minimize the impact of the virus …

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Building a world of shared cyberspace

By Cong Peiying Before the two-day World Internet Conference and Internet Development Forum opened in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, on Monday, the organizing committee released an action plan on how to build a mutually beneficial cybercommunity, including taking initiatives to better safeguard personal information and strengthen data security. In a congratulatory …

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China tops the world in AI patent application: report

China has surpassed the United States for the first time in terms of the number of artificial intelligence patent applications, ranking first in the world, according to a report released at the World Internet Conference on Nov. 23, 2020. According to the China Internet Development Report 2020, China continues to …

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China bests the West on pandemic, economic challenges

2020 has been the most extraordinary year since 1945. The pandemic has, in an utterly new way, tested virtually every government in the world to the limit. Already, of course, it was taking place in the context of the growing divide between the U.S. and China. But we need to …

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E-commerce platform from China unleashing Rwanda’s potential for cross-border shopping

by Xinhua writers Lyu Tianran, Frank Kanyesigye and James Gashumba  Almost every month, Kigali resident Yves Ishimwe would order products from China, usually electronics but also lady’s handbags. The 23-year-old graphics designer started doing this in 2019 after a friend recommended him a cross-border online shopping platform, KiKUU. Headquartered in …

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Working Together To Open Up A New Chapter In China-Africa Relations

By Zhao Yong  Twenty years ago, Chinese and African leaders gathered in Beijing to inaugurate the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). A new era was thus opened for China-Africa relations. Over the two decades, by acting along the prevailing trend of peace, development and cooperation, FOCAC has established itself as …

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Peking University and the story of love for books

I came across this story from my favorite University in China – Peking University, talking about the love of books by Prof. Xu Xianglin a political scholar at the school of Government. I found the story inspiring and worth sharing for those who have the passion to seek for knowledge …

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Africa: Who will bell the cat? The Case of Democratic Republic of Congo Part 2

By: Mweusi Karake White mercenary army- Black press-gungs In my last article, I showed you pictures of children whose hands were cut off because their families produced less rubber than the quota assigned. To enforce such a brutal slavery, King Leopold II, could not just rely on the Belgian army. …

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Africa: Who will bell the cat? The Case of Democratic Republic of Congo.

By: Mweusi Karake There is an old Greek fable often attributed to a Greek story teller and fabulist Aesop who lived  more than half a century BC; died in Delpli Greece in 564 BC!, Aesop’s birth date is unknown but that is irrelevant. The fable has been given different tittles, …

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Let us not waste the COVID-19 crisis

Kishore Mahbubani As we know, in the year of 2020, humanity is experiencing one of the greatest crisis in human history. I am of course referring to COVID-19. Even more damaging, the global economy has suffered, and once again global poverty is rising.   The first question we need to …

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