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African countries have only acquired about 82.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines so far, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said Thursday. The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the African Union, said during its weekly briefing that around 1.39 percent of Africa’s total population …

By Gerald Mbanda President Xi Jinping delivers a speech at APEC virtual meeting on Friday, July 16, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua] On Friday, July16, Chinese president Xi Jinping expressed China’s resolve in the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the determination to promote multilateralism. While speaking at an informal …

Pacifique Malonga As 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Rwanda, there is a narrative mostly by Western scholars that China-Africa relations are one-sided and even exploitative by China. However, this has been proven to be wrong over time as Africa has massively profited from its relationship …

By Gerald Mbanda When one reads through western media, it is common find headlines accusing China of cyber-attacks and cyber espionage against US. Cyber security analysts question how the US considered having a big monopoly on many key cyberspace resources continually accuses China of carrying out cyber-attacks. The analysts conclude that the US cry is of disguise as a poor victim and a deceptive cover-up of their own cyber …

ANALYSIS By David Everatt Masego Mafata / GroundUp An overturned car blocks the road in Alexandra, Johannesburg in July 2021. South Africans spent most of mid-July glued to their news outlets, from established media outlets to TikTok, from streaming news to old-fashioned printed words, to see just one thing: would Jacob Zuma blink? Would the country finally get some …

By Mcebisi Jonas  Illustrative image | Sources: EPA-EFE / Nic Bothma / GuillemSartorio / Bloomberg via Getty Images As Africa struggles to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic and the world begins to rebuild, it is time to consider what kind of future we are bequeathing to the youth of our continent. The pandemic has created a hinge …

By Hanane Thamik China has dramatically increased its presence in North Africa in terms of trade and investment over the past two decades. Pragmatism is perhaps the best word to describe Chinese-Moroccan relations. Because both parties are aware of the importance of the other and therefore try to use these …

Exhibitions and celebrations are well underway in Beijing and Shanghai as the Communist Party of China (CPC) is set to embrace its centenary on July 1. An exhibition on the history of the CPC opened on Friday in Beijing, showing how the CPC has united and led the Chinese people …

Medical supplies donated by China are unloaded from a plane at Robert Mugabe International Airport in Harare, Zimbabwe, on May 11, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhang Yuliang) “China has walked its talk with African countries and other developing countries around the world in an effort to manage this pandemic,” said Cavince Adhere, a …

The Biden administration formally rescinded two Trump era executive orders which sought unsuccessfully to ban a swathe of Chinese social media applications, most notably including TikTok and WeChat. Nonetheless, the White House ordered a Commerce Department review into applications that may pose “threats to national security.” At the same time, …