Huawei Technologies Co. is bracing for its most difficult year on record in 2020, when tightening U.S. sanctions and the Covid-19 pandemic threaten to slam an already slowing business. Rotating Chairman Eric Xu said he’s aware of the potential for Washington to...

The U.S. and Chinese governments have increasingly turned the novel coronavirus pandemic into a contest over their primacy as the world's leading humanitarian force, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo highlighting U.S. contributions to global aid agencies Tuesday and...

An Ethiopian Airlines cargo flight filled with medical supplies donated to Africa from the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation arrives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 22, 2020. Photo: Xinhua African experts and Chinese doctors who are providing aid in the...

Ethiopia’s Ambassador to Kenya Meles Alem KAA Staff Alex Gitari and Director of Public Health Dr Patrick Amoth at JKIA yesterday. Kenya has received a batch of 25,000 kits for testing coronavirus. The kits were donated by China’s billionaire Jack Ma through his...

The African Union already received 2,000 test kits from the Chinese government and is expecting another 10,000 of them along with other crucial medical supplies needed to fight the spread of Covid-19 across the continent. The distribution of the medical equipment...

Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing The rise of China in Africa has triggered an ongoing debate about whether Chinese capital is a barrier that entraps African governments in practices that hinder poverty reduction....

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has surpassed 800, an eightfold increase from just one week ago. But a shortage of test kits in many African countries means the number of infected is likely far higher. Dr. Ahmed Kalebi has been trying to acquire test...

ZIMBABWE is set to tighten measures aimed at combating the spread of the deadly coronavirus with an expected cities lockdown and a further ban on travels between towns and rural areas among locals. This comes after the country recorded its first two cases of the world...

The national restrictions in place due to coronavirus are much milder compared to other nations. The week since President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a Covid-19 national disaster has shown that South Africans are ready to unite in this life-and-death struggle. Even...

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, left, shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing Sept 3, 2018. Donald Trump’s unconventional approach to governance and diplomacy has encouraged China to experiment with a more confrontational diplomacy style...

From the taiga snow forests of Russia ’s far east to the savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa, I have been on the frontline of the fight against the illegal wildlife trade. With my publications, the Evening Standard and the Independent, we have campaigned for more than a...

The coronavirus pandemic continued to tighten its grip on the US on Friday, as China reported the second day in a row of no new domestic cases of the virus. California’s Governor, Gavin Newsom, expanded a “take shelter order to cover the entire state, ordering all...