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 …
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Covid vaccines: Russia, China, India…Who is supplying Africa?
By Marie Toulemonde, The Africa Report. Covid vaccination campaigns have kicked off across the globe. But while many developed countries are busy inoculating their populations, the continent is grappling with growing bilateral agreements with foreign laboratories and mobilising its health Read More …
Seven Years of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: How are Developing Countries Benefiting?
By Ssemanda Allawi. In 2013 – seven years ago, Chinese president Xi Jinping gave a set of speeches where he announced the proposal of the now famous Belt Road Initiative (BRI). Xi delivered the first speech about BRI during his Read More …
Africa and China Share Common Approach to Climate Change.
By David Monyae Weather patterns across the globe are signalling that climate change will bring about catastrophic calamities to all of us. Increasingly, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, rising sea levels, warming oceans, thawing permafrost, changing rain and snow patterns are adversely Read More …
Politics of Pandemic: How Zimbabwe is Using Covid-19 to Stifle Human Rights.
Harare, Zimbabwe. Arguably, no country has not been affected by the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus pandemic. But for Zimbabwe, many believe Covid-19 presented an opportunity for authoritarian regime to use Coronavirus measures and entrench itself while grossly violating fundamental Read More …
Why are coups always led by colonels?
By Elizabeth Dickinson. Passport‘s brilliant editor, Joshua Keating, asked me a very good question the other day: why does it seem like African coups are always led by middle-ranking military officers? The recent coup in Niger was led by Read More …
Africa: The world’s Fastest growing Continent but home to 90% of World’s Poorest?
Ssemanda Allawi Africa was for so long seen by some as a dark continent or a hopeless continent as the Economist once put it. However, in the last two decades, the image of Africa has been improving with experts and economists predicting Read More …
Covid-19 Challenges: Will China’s Debt Relief to Africa Work?
By Allawi Ssemanda As a result of restless calls for debt relief for African countries due to the inevitable economic meltdown brought about by Covid-19, China’s Debt relief plan for Africa is steadily emerging. It is believed that China is Read More …
Covid-19: China-Africa Solidarity Needed Than Ever Before
Even before African countries gained independence, Africa and China shared an intriguing and resilient relationship that despite the distance between the two continents, the now over sixty years cordial relationship between African countries and China can be described as brotherly. Read More …
Enhanced China-Africa Cooperation Vital to Soften Impact of Covid- 19 – Xi Jinping
Your Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa, Your Excellency President Macky Sall, Your Excellencies Heads of State and Government, Your Excellency Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Your Excellency António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Your Excellency Tedros Read More …