Published:December 31,2021 By Dinah Matengo Ethiopian lawmakers have approved a bill to establish a commission for national dialogue, amid international pressure for negotiations to end the 13-month conflictin the Tigray region. The Federal Parliamentary Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor on Wednesday with 287 votes for, 13 votes against and one abstention. “The commission’s establishment will …
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Published : December 30,2021 By ZHANG YUNBI President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivers an important speech at the opening ceremony of the 11th National Congress of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and …
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Published:December 30,2021 By Irene Mwangi MPs were Wednesday set to take a vote on the Political Parties Amendment Bill of 2021, a key factor in the 2022 presidential election that is already shaping up as a two-horse race between Deputy President William Ruto and Opposition chief Raila Odinga. While Ruto has made it clear MPs should shoot …
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Published:December 29,2021 By staff writer China strict restrictions to battle the SARS-CoV-2 virus, used to be universally decried as too draconian, until those same measures became the norm around the world. Now the country’s “zero Covid” policy is under scrutiny, but the governmentshows no sign that it is might change course. Might this policy too turn out to …
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Published: December 29, 2021 Pixabay Africa’s current roads infrastructure meets only 17% of the continent’s transport needs. However, according to Olufunso Somorin, the African Development Bank’s East Africa Regional Principal Officer for Climate Change and Green Growth, the low figure has some upside. He says that the gap presents an opportunity for …
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Published: December 28, 2021 By Chen Zhaoyuan LI MIN/CHINA DAILY The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation has transformed into a comprehensive strategic and cooperation platform for China and African countries. The Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held in Dakar, Senegal, recently injected new …
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Published: December 28,2021 By LIU HONGJIE in Beijing, XU WEIWEI in Hong Kong,XU WEIWEI and WANG XU in Tokyo A Uygur family harvests ripe grapes in Turpan, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [Photo/People’s Daily Online] United States President Joe Biden’s signing into law of the so-called “Uyghur Forced Labor …
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By Staff writer Chinese State councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs H.E Wang Yi, disclosed that China and Africa cooperation has reached a new climax. The Foreign minister said this while speaking at a symposium on the International Sutiation and China’s Foreign Relations in 2021, under the theme: China’s Diplomacy in 2021: Embracing …
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By John Allen Desmond & Leah Tutu Foundation Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu Desmond Tutu lived his life with passion, courage, faith and deep insight, but it was a life lived against the odds. Sickly at birth, as an infant he survived polio, which left him with a permanently weakened right …
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Published: December 26, 2021 By Gerald Mbanda A view of a cotton farm in Xinjiang on Friday Photo: Li Xuanmin/GT The recent signing of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act into law by US President Joe Biden is a politically motivated move and an act of provocation aimed at destabilizing and isolating China. The so called forced labour in Xinjiang is a lie that U.S. authorities invented and want to use it …
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