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Published: July 30,2023 A Chinese envoy on Friday called on the UN Security Council to lift sanctions against certain African countries so as to improve their capacity for the protection of civilians.Host countries of UN peacekeeping operations shoulder the primary responsibility for the protection of civilians. UN peacekeeping operations should …

Published:July 29,2023  The Malawian government expects to increase exports to China to boost their economic and trade cooperation, a senior official has said. Malawi has been approved to export soya beans, dried beans and tea to China and the two sides are promoting the approval of other agricultural products such …

Published: July 26,2023 Gebeyehu Ganga, director general of the Asia and Pacific Directorate at the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaks during the launch ceremony for a new book entitled “Africa-China Relations – Ethiopia as a Case Study” in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 15, 2023.  (Xinhua/Wang Ping) A new book …

Published : July 10,2023 By Gerald Mbanda Xi’an city. Photo credit: @Gerald Mbanda I had an opportunity to visit Xi’an city this summer and the experience was thrilling. The city is clean, green with wide roads. It is the capital of Shaanxi Province in central China once known as Chang’an …

Published: July 08,2023 Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwacommissioned a Chinese-built lithium processing plant at a mine in Goromonzi District, some 40 km east of the capital Harare. The plant at one of the world’s largest hard rock lithium resources, the Arcadia Lithium Mine, was constructed by the Chinese firm Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co., Ltd from May 2022 …

Published: July 07,2023 No Tanzania’s Zanzibar Minister of Trade and Industrial Development Omar Said Shaaban speaks at the 47th Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair (DITF) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on July 4, 2023. Tanzania’s leading trade fair on Tuesday celebrated China Day and launched a pavilion featuring more …

Published: June 11,2023 The Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya, a flagship project of China-Africa cooperation, has become a major “business card” of Chinese enterprises and a demonstrative work of the Belt and Road Initiative. The 480-km rail line, linking the largest port in East Africa, Mombasa, to Kenya’s capital …

Published:June 09,2023 By Staff writer In a panel discussion held in November 2022, titled “Is America Ready for a Multipolar World?“, hosted by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a think tank in Washington DC,  former French Ambassador to the UN  Gérard Araud, took a swipe at the U.S as …

Published: May 26,2023 By MINLU ZHANG in New York  Xie Feng (center), the new Chinese ambassador to the United States, waves to media upon his arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Tuesday. Liao Pan / For China Daily Xie Feng, the new Chinese ambassador to the United States, …

Published: May 23,2023 This photo taken on May 20, 2023 shows the diversion ceremony site of Caculo-Cabaca Hydropower Station in CuanzaNorte province, Angola. (Xinhua/Lyu Chengcheng) Angolan President Joao Lourenco has spoken highly of the socioeconomic contribution of the Chinese-built Caculo-Cabaca Hydropower Station, saying that the station would bring significant benefits in terms of energy supply …