China could drive Africa’s renewable energy revolution- Report says
April 2, 2024 China has a unique opportunity to drive forward an energy revolution in Africa, but it must first reverse nearly two decades of neglect of green power investments…
BRICS nations to meet in South Africa seeking to blunt Western dominance
August 17, 2023 BRICS leaders meet in South Africa next week to discuss how to turn a loose club of nations accounting for a quarter of the global economy into…
Pressed To Choose Sides On Ukraine, China Trade Favors The West
March 21, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden’s warning of “consequences” for any aid China may give to Russia’s Ukraine war effort could force Chinese President Xi Jinping to choose between…
China’s Xi pledges another 1bn COVID-19 vaccine doses for Africa
Nov 30, 2021 China will deliver another 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Africa and encourage Chinese companies to invest no less than $10 billion in the continent over…
Britain suggests climate funding plan as UN negotiators go into overtime
Nov. 13, 2021 Negotiators took the two-week U.N. climate talks in Scotland into an extra day on Saturday, wrestling with a fresh draft of an agreement intended to give the…
Global climate talks open to cries of betrayal, blame
Nov 1, 2021 A U.N. conference seen critical to averting the most disastrous effects of climate change launches amid acrimony on Monday after major industrialised nations were accused of dragging…
Stop vaccine hoarding- Developing nations take plea to world’s wealthy at UNGA
Sept. 23, 2021 Leaders from developing nations warned the U.N. General Assembly this week that COVID-19 vaccine hoarding by wealthy countries left the door open for the emergence of new…
China congratulates Biden, Harris, says we respect the choice of the American people
China on Friday congratulated U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, who won the Nov. 3 election that President Donald Trump has not conceded, nearly a week after the former vice president clinched…
China expending great efforts in global scramble COVID-19 vaccine trials
China will strengthen international cooperation in future COVID-19 clinical vaccine trials, building on earlier collaboration in vaccine development, the science and technology minister said on Sunday. China is expending great…
Investors eye possibility of economic boost, as oil bounces 8% on stimulus hopes
Oil prices bounced 8% on Tuesday from the biggest one-day rout in nearly 30 years, as investors eyed the possibility of economic stimulus amid a price war between Russia and…