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By Gerald Mbanda President Xi Jinping is set to attend and deliver the keynote address at the opening ceremony of the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women, scheduled to be held in Beijing from October 13 to 14, Oct, 2025. This high-level event, bringing together heads of state, policymakers, and global influencers, comes at a pivotal time when the…
Guo Jiakun, spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, speaks to journalists in Beijing, China, June 23, 2025. /VCG China appreciates the South African government’s resolute advancement of the relocation process for a Taiwan institution in South Africa, and believes that Taiwan authorities’ attempt to counter the international consensus on the one-China principle by weaponizingsemiconductors is bound to…
A worker works at a construction site of the Central Business District (CBD) project in the new administrative capital on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, on Oct. 5, 2025. (Photo by Li Binghong/Xinhua). As many Chinese families were celebrating the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival, a group of Chinese builders were working on the Central Business District (CBD)…
Mayor of Francistown Gaone Majere has commended the Chinese community and the Chinese medical team in Botswana’s second largest city for their contribution to the local economic and social development. Speaking at an event to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival held in Francistown on Sunday, Majere praised the Chinese community and businessmen for their efforts to tackle unemployment in the city. He invited…
By Gerald Mbanda Chinese-built Super Highway in Nairobi-Kenya. Photo Credit: Xinhua China stands out as a nation actively promoting inclusive development, mutual respect, and shared prosperity in a world increasingly divided by economic nationalism and unilateralism. Its vision extends beyond national borders, emphasizing that no country, especially developing nations, should be left behind in the march…
Nyesom Wike (C), minister of Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), lights up a sample solar streetlight during the launch ceremony of the “Light Up Abuja” project in Abuja, Nigeria, Oct. 2, 2025. (CCECC/Handout via Xinhua) Two Chinese construction firms, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) and CGCOC Group Co., Ltd., have officially broken ground…
Credit: @ Mike Urinzwenimana By Staff writer Rwanda, in collaboration with Huawei Technologies,on Friday, launched phase II of Rwanda Smart Education at Kagarama secondary school in Kicukirodistrict on the outskirts of Kigali city. Phase II of the project will connect additional 2,500 schools, establish 100 smart classrooms as well as putting up a national education cloud platform, which will…
By Wilfred Ndhlovu Against the backdrop of global geopolitical shifts, Africa’s pursuit of equitable development partnerships has never been more critical. The Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9), held in Yokohama in August 2025, was hailed by Japan as a milestone for Africa-Japan cooperation—but it ultimately laid bare the gap between rhetoric and…
Cape Verde and China have signed an agreement on financing for the third phase of the “Safe City” project, which aims to establish new command centers in different Cape Verdean cities. The agreement was signed on Wednesday in Praia, the capital of Cape Verde. In the third phase, the command and data centers in Praia…
Kenyan President William Ruto (C) attends the groundbreaking ceremony for the China-Kenya International Commerce Center in Nairobi, Kenya, on Oct. 1, 2025. Ruto on Wednesday launched the construction of the five-billion-shillings (about 38.7 million U.S. dollars) China-Kenya International Commerce Center, a project designed to strengthen Sino-Kenyan trade and investment. According to Ruto, the facility will…