Day: January 29, 2020
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The G20 is Going to Try One More Time to Get Everyone Together to Come Up With a Debt Relief Plan for Poor Countries
Finance Ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 will convene an extraordinary meeting on November 13th in a bid to come up with a more robust debt relief plan for the world's poorest countries. A couple of weeks ...
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There’s Good News and Bad News About Kenya’s Ballooning National Debt
After Angola and Zambia, Kenya is high on the list of countries at risk of encountering severe debt distress due in part to extensive borrowing from China to fund major infrastructure projects like the Standard Gauge Railway and, more recently, its seemingly insatiable appetite for more debt. ...
China Launched a Virtual Trade Show With East Africa This Week That It Says Will Get 10,000 Attendees
With physical trade fairs all shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese trade promotion authorities are experimenting with new virtual models. On Monday, a China-Africa virtual expo kicked off, reportedly with more than a thousand exhibitors from both regions and organizers say they're confident ...
U.S. Throws WTO Director-General Selection Process Into Chaos, Possibly With an Eye on China
The United States threw a wrench into the selection process for the World Trade Organization's next Director-General when it moved on Wednesday to block the appointment of Nigerian-American Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to support its preferred candidate Yoo Myung-hee, South Korea's trade minister. Washington's stated ...
Algeria Opened the New Chinese-Built Mega Mosque
Algeria's new Grand Mosque, the largest mosque in Africa, hosted its first public prayers yesterday -- 18 months after the China State Construction Engineering Corporation completed construction. The new mosque, known locally as the Djamaa El-Djazair, occupies ...
Wang Yi, China's Foreign Minister and S. Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs of India
In the space of 24 hours, between Sunday and Monday, the foreign ministers from both China and India laid out their respective governments’ positions on the escalating war in the Middle East. In Beijing, China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, was unsparing in his criticism of ...
Why the Fight to Stop the Coronavirus From Spreading in Africa Begins in China
The following column was originally written as a nine-part Twitter thread on January 28, 2020. This is a full transcript with only minor edits for clarity. As a global development consultancy based in China that offers internships and jobs ...
Al Jazeera’s 101 East Investigates How China’s New “Silk Road” is Changing Lives From Asia to Africa
Al Jazeera English's Asia documentary series 101 East dedicated an entire episode to showcasing China's Belt and Road Initiative. It's a fascinating program that explores how the tens of billions of dollars already spent to build out the BRI is impact millions throughout the developing world, for ...
Tweet of the Day: African Twitter in Awe Over China’s Ability to Build Hospitals in Just a Few Days and Blasts Own Governments for Failing to Do the Same
News that China will need just days to build new hospitals in Wuhan to accommodate thousands of new patients infected with the coronavirus sparked both admiration about the seemingly unique Chinese ability to mobilize massive resources to get things done quickly and, at the same time, bitter ...
Conservation Groups Welcome China’s Decision to Ban on Wildlife Markets
Conservationists are hoping that China's decision this week to temporarily ban the sale of wildlife in open markets will eventually become permanent. The Chinese government announced the move on Sunday as part of a broad effort to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus. ...
Hundreds of Africans Feel Trapped and Abandonned Quarantined in Wuhan
While thousands of expatriates from wealthy countries will be airlifted out of Wuhan, the epicenter of the burgeoning coronavirus outbreak, African expats meantime confront a very different reality. In addition to the 4,600 African students currently in Wuhan, according to Quartz, there are hundreds ...