Day: December 2, 2020
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Chinese Tobacco Firm Helps Zimbabwe To Generate Much-Needed Foreign Income
In a single file, farm workers carry up to 25 kilogrammes of Virginia leaf tobacco on their shoulders. Titus Gurupira (45), a farmer on a farm in Mvurwi, 100 km north of Harare, pleads with his workers to hurry with the picking ahead of the hectic marketing ...
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Chinese propaganda outlets are moving to frame the narrative that Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines are better suited for developing countries compared to those made by U.S. and European organizations. "African and some Latin American countries would prefer Chinese-developed inactivated vaccines, due to ...
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