Two government-approved solar projects in Kenya will be financed and built by Chinese companies.
Fewer than 40 percent of Africans have access to electricity, a fact that starkly shows how serious the continent's shortage of energy and investment in the infrastructure that can produce it is.
While government and private enterprises are crucial players in improving conditions in developing countries, the experience of one nongovernmental organization shows how civil society also has a large role in making such positive transformations.
The plume of dark smoke that rose over Nairobi National Park in Kenya on March 3 was like a signal, one to tell those who love elephants and other wildlife that the world is taking a stand against poaching and the ivory trade. That day a pyre of 15 tons of elephant tusks had been erected and set alight.
As China has increased the number of seizures of ivory and convictions and penalties related to it, it has demonstrated its tougher stance against the illegal trade, says John Scanlon, secretary-general of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
Before setting foot in China, Resson Kantai Duff and Christopher Kiarie imagined streets lined with Chinese people wearing exquisite bracelets, necklaces and earrings, all made of delicately carved ivory.
March 3 was World Wildlife Day, when we paused to celebrate the astonishing diversity of fauna and flora on this planet, and reflect on the challenges they face.
It is 5 o'clock on Friday afternoon, and more than a dozen youths are still waiting for job interviews outside the office of Jumia Kenya in downtown Nairobi. Three receptionists are so busy that a visitor who has just arrived is all but ignored.
An increasingly popular mobile payment service called M-Pesa is turning Kenya into a potentially lucrative e-commerce market in Africa.
A few years ago, for Wang Fengzhai any mention of Africa conjured up just two words: poverty and disease. In that regard, Wang, a university student, was similar to many millions of his Chinese compatriots.
To some, Africa is still the "Dark Continent", characterized by an abundance of gold, diamonds, silver, coal and oil but plagued by illiteracy, poverty and primitivity. To the enlightened, it is a brilliantly shining star, albeit smaller than the rest of the galaxy but growing much faster than the bigger stars.
China will keep sending medical workers, technology and relief supplies to help African countries with Ebola outbreaks as they are needed, says Cui Li, vice-minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
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