By Rugaba John Paul and Allawi Ssemanda. During Vladimir Putin’s state of nation address in April, he warned the west that there would be severe consequences if the west had crossed Russia’s red line. This statement not only proved the Read More …
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Ssemanda Allawi is a Senior Research Fellow at DWC and author Global Governance and Norm Contestation: How BRICS is Reshaping World Order.
Why Chinese system can offer more choices than Western democracy.
By Martin Jacques. Nowhere is the difference between China and the West more evident than in their systems of governance. Since 1945 the typical form of Western governance has been universal suffrage and a multi-party system. This has been the West’s Read More …
WHOSE OIL: THE UGANDA-TOTAL DEAL.
What we know so far is that France’s Total E&P owns lions share – 72% shareholding in the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, Uganda’s UNOC has just 15%, China’s CNOOC is in third position with 8% while Tanzania Petroleum Development Read More …
A Century of Progress: CPC’s Success Story and the Rise of China Have Positively Impacted Africa.
As China’s ruling party – the Communist Party of China (CPC) celebrates her 100th birthday, from its very humble background, in almost all fronts, CPC now stands firm and taller after seeing China through a remarkable Century of unquestionable progress. Read More …
Criticising China over “Vaccine Diplomacy” is Trivial and Inhuman.
By Allawi Ssemanda. Over the past months, some international media and political pundits in different capitals have been very active framing and creating negative narrative targeting China’s Covid-19 vaccine donations to poor and developing countries. Many branded this humanitarian gesture Read More …
China’s Donation of Covid-19 Vaccine to Uganda Re-Affirms Beijing’s Philosophy of a Shared future for Prosperity.
By Ssemanda Allawi, China’s gesture to donate 300,000 doses of Covid-19 Sinovac Vaccine to Uganda is a great gesture and should be hailed. This life saving donation announced by Chinese special representative H.E Yang Jiechi comes in at a time Read More …
China and Rwanda Sign $60million Grant, Agree 6million $6 million Debt Cancellation.
By Lavie Mutanganshuro, Kigali. The Government of Rwanda and the People’s Republic of China on February 19 signed an economic and technical cooperation agreement for a grant worth RMB Yuan 400 million (approximately U$ 60 million). At the same ceremony, Read More …
Global Democracy has a Very Bad Year.
Report by The Economist Global democracy continued its decline in 2020, according to the latest edition of the Democracy Index from our sister company, The Economist Intelligence Unit. The annual survey, which rates the state of democracy across 167 countries based on Read More …
Africa’s friendship for China goes beyond economic and development cooperation.
By Azhar Azam The Africa-China cooperation is described as a relationship between two partners in which Africa wants to gain from China’s development model and circumvent western pressure, to make political and economic reforms such as infamous structural adjustment, through Read More …
Vaccine nationalism poses a major threat to Africa as the West gobbles up supplies – we need to up our game
By David Monyae and Sizo Nkala counsel The race to inoculate world populations against Covid-19 has begun in earnest and Africa is losing it. According to The New York Times, as of 4 February 2021 a total of 107.3 million vaccine Read More …