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Zawya
5 days ago
- Business
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Kenya: Amb. Guo Haiyan Paid a Courtesy Call on Hon. CS Hannah Cheptumo
On June 4, Amb. Guo Haiyan paid a courtesy call on Hon. Hannah Cheptumo, Cabinet Secretary for Gender, Culture, The Arts and Heritage. Amb. Guo congratulated Cheptumo on her appointment as CS for Gender, Culture, The Arts and and Heritage, and pointed out that H.E. President William Ruto's state visit to China in April was a complete success. The two sides agreed to elevate the bilateral relations to China-Kenya community with a shared future for the new era. Strengthening people-to-people exchanges and cooperation is an indispensable part of building the community. The two sides will jointly host the 2025 China-Kenya Culture and Tourism Season, which is believed to further deepen the cultural and tourism cooperation between the two countries and inject important impetus into building an even closer China-Kenya community with a shared future for the new era. Cheptumo expressed her expectation to work with the Chinese colleagues to jointly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state and promote the further deepening and development of China-Kenya relations. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Republic of Kenya.
Zawya
05-04-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Kenya: Ambassador Guo Haiyan Meets with His Excellency (H.E.) Dr. Francis Irungu Kang'ata
AFRICA On April 4, H.E. Amb. Guo Haiyan met with H.E. Dr. Francis Irungu Kang'atai, Governor of Murang'a County. Minister Counselor Zhang Zhizhong and former Kenyan Ambassador to China Ms. Mary Muthoni Gichohi were present at the meeting. The two sides exchanged views on strengthening the subnational cooperation in trade and investment to bring greater benefits to the two peoples. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Republic of Kenya. Disclaimer: The contents of this press release was provided from an external third party provider. This website is not responsible for, and does not control, such external content. This content is provided on an 'as is' and 'as available' basis and has not been edited in any way. Neither this website nor our affiliates guarantee the accuracy of or endorse the views or opinions expressed in this press release. The press release is provided for informational purposes only. The content does not provide tax, legal or investment advice or opinion regarding the suitability, value or profitability of any particular security, portfolio or investment strategy. Neither this website nor our affiliates shall be liable for any errors or inaccuracies in the content, or for any actions taken by you in reliance thereon. You expressly agree that your use of the information within this article is at your sole risk. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, this website, its parent company, its subsidiaries, its affiliates and the respective shareholders, directors, officers, employees, agents, advertisers, content providers and licensors will not be liable (jointly or severally) to you for any direct, indirect, consequential, special, incidental, punitive or exemplary damages, including without limitation, lost profits, lost savings and lost revenues, whether in negligence, tort, contract or any other theory of liability, even if the parties have been advised of the possibility or could have foreseen any such damages. © ZAWYA 2025
Zawya
02-04-2025
- Business
- Zawya
US' loss, China's gain: Aid cuts may open doors for Beijing in Africa
Last week, the Chinese government pledged a Ksh1.8 billion ($14 million) grant to Kenya, one of the biggest development assistance packages from Beijing in the recent years. The deal signed by Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi and Chinese ambassador to Kenya Guo Haiyan is meant to upgrade five key hospitals across the country. But the announcement was pivotal, coming at a time the US, Kenya's main foreign aid donor, is cutting back on most of the money it used to give. The Donald Trump administration has indicated it is truncating 5,341 contracts, initially provided mostly through USAid, worth some $75 billion. It greenlighted another 898 programmes worth $78 billion, although most of them will end within the next 11 months. The decision which all but ends the existence of USAid, has policy experts warning of a bleak future. USAid spent $32.5 billion in Africa in the 2024 fiscal year, although, overall, the US sent some $41 billion to sub-Saharan Africa to fund humanitarian responses and programmes, such as health and climate initiatives. Ethiopia was the top African recipient of USAid funding in 2023, with $1.37 billion, Somalia ($973 million) and DR Congo (943 million). Kenya received $436 million, with some of it going into refugee camps serving people from South Sudan and Somalia. In Kenya, USAid had been the backbone of health services such as research and treatment of malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/Aids, and even bankrolled some nutritional programmes. Now some of the programmes, such as HIV drugs, may be cut. Some US politicians concede that a Chinese influence in future foreign aid will be inevitable. Democrat Senators Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chris Coons (Delaware), Cory Booker (New Jersey), Brian Schatz (Hawaii), Tammy Duckworth (Illinois) and Jacky Rosen (Nevada) argue that cutting down USAid would make it difficult for the US to counter China. On March 14, 2025, the Democrats wrote to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to provide answers to how the USAid cut will impact America's interests.'For less than 1 percent of our annual budget, the US builds partnerships around the globe that diminish the threat of terrorism, the spread of disease and build peace,' Senator Shaheen said.'I am still waiting to hear why this administration does not consider programmes that have eradicated polio, cut malaria deaths in half and saved 25 million lives through HIV treatment to be 'lifesaving.' China alone will benefit from this decline in American global leadership.'Their worry was that trump had terminated vital US foreign assistance projects, including in countries where the Washington maintains military bases, and cut critical vaccine and global health projects around the world. The State Department ignored them. But US funding cuts don't necessarily mean Beijing is jumping in. Some experts say China had already identified its niche. Dr Adhere Cavince, a China-Africa scholar told The EastAfrican that US withdrawal obviously leaves a gap that is both inviting by also challenging.'Inviting because China can use the opportunity to strengthen its partnership with global South countries that heavily relied on US aid; challenging because China may not be keen to support the kind of programmes that the US did. They would instead double down on their competitive areas: Infrastructure development, trade, digital inclusion and capital development. They could also come in on the health front- supplies of medicines,' he said. In Africa, China has constructed 'friendship' offices for the African Union, the Economic Community of West Africa, Intergovernmental Authority on Development and parliament buildings for Zimbabwe and Cameroon. The US funding cuts may mean China will pump more money in social programmes, but only where their influence is strong, the scholar argues. Read: US vs China: Who's fooling Africa?When Trump first suspended USAid, Kenya's Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi said that African countries will have to wean themselves of aid, fast.'The geopolitics and shifting global dynamics being witnessed is a clear indicator that we should be looking at ways of being self-reliant moving into the future. We cannot afford to prevaricate. Other countries are making moves. We must make ours now,' Mr Mudavadi said on the side-lines of a UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva on February 28. He said Africans must learn quick decision-making, and build stronger partnerships with private sector. Some observers, however, say African countries will first face the shock, and may even be stuck in it for lack of capacity. Dr Angela Muvumba Sellström, senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden, says the abrupt termination of US support for HIV/Aids management and mitigation, for example, will pose a wide range of problems to individuals, communities and countries.'Here are the consequences: Individuals off antiretroviral medications will see their viral loads increase, and, depending on how long they've been living with HIV (and on treatment), will become vulnerable to opportunistic infections. They will then have to rely on the public sector for health care, increasing the disease burden on the system. They will be out of work and unable to support their families,' she told The EastAfrican'This has a ripple effect on livelihoods and the functioning of society.'It means productive parts of the population, who have been kept healthy through subsidised medication, will be felled by sickness and public health systems will struggle to cope with new infections, she warned. Given the way Africa struggled to manage pandemics, in the past, the continent will face a burden that will drug more people into poverty. According to her, it is not that African governments should not take responsibility for their populations. The current geopolitical and socio-economic conditions, however, are not built for them to do so because they have no money.'And even when the Chinese step in, the basic need in African health systems, she argued, is a sustainable supply of medical services. African states should find ways to build their own drug production capacity – and that takes time. And while hospitals built by the Chinese would be a help, what about the medicines to treat people in these hospitals?'One solution, she said, is for African countries may still need multilateral lenders that have leverage with private sector and deal with the growing debt in Africa through an emergency plan to forgive some of the debt so these countries can reroute their resources to health crises caused by funding cuts. Abdisaid M. Ali, chair of the Lome Security Forum, said Africa's next aid system should focus on strengthening government structures.'Foreign aid in Africa has been at an international bridge for the last six decades built on well-established western international aid structures and guarded by UN, international NGOs, and military institutions that have never ceded primacy to the host African governments. But the donors implemented their projects through parallel structures with the existing authorities which weakened most of these host governments,' he told The EastAfrican.'So, any non-traditional donors who could implement projects through the government entities would be considered as the most viable and effective partners.' © Copyright 2022 Nation Media Group. All Rights Reserved. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (
Zawya
26-03-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Ambassador Guo Haiyan Attends the 2025 Kenya-China Economic & Trade Association Annual Meeting
On March 25, at the invitation of the Kenya-China Economic&Trade Association, Ambassador Guo Haiyan attended the 2025 Association Annual Meeting and delivered a speech. Minister-Counselor Zhou Zhencheng from the Embassy accompanied her, and nearly 100 representatives from member companies attended the meeting. In her speech, Ambassador Guo fully recognized the work of the Association over the past year and highly praised its positive contributions to promoting pragmatic economic and trade cooperation between China and Kenya, as well as to the economic and social development of Kenya. Ambassador Guo encouraged the enterprises to seize the current opportunities, continuously pursue innovation, and promote the upgrading of cooperation between the two sides. She urged the enterprises to operate in compliance with the law, fulfill their social responsibilities, and pay attention to risk prevention to ensure safe production and operations. She also called on the enterprises to earnestly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state and to effectively advance the Ten Partnership Initiatives in Kenya, thereby jointly creating a new chapter in China-Kenya relations. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Republic of Kenya.
Zawya
25-03-2025
- Politics
- Zawya
Kenya: Ambassador Guo Haiyan Paid a Courtesy Call On Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga
On March 24, H.E. Amb. Guo Haiyan paid a courtesy call on Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga, former Prime Minister of Kenya and Party Leader of the Orange Democratic Movement. Minister Counselor Zhou Zhencheng, Cabinet Secretary for The National Treasury and Economic Planning Hon. FCPA John Mbadi, were present at the meeting. The two sides exchanged views on carrying forward friendly traditions, strengthening practical cooperation, and promoting the continued steady growth of the China-Kenya relations. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Republic of Kenya.
