Chinese foreign ministers maintains long tradition of making first visit of the year to Africa
Maintaining a diplomatic tradition lasting a quarter of a century, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has made Africa his first overseas destination in 2017. His six-day safari has included Madagascar, Zambia, Tanzania, Republic of Congo and Nigeria. Minister Wang Yi has followed five predecessors who visited Africa during their first foreign trip each year. After […]
Swampy forest in central Africa is a massive CO2 store
Scientists have mapped a swampy forest in central Africa the size of Britain they say is a storehouse for Carbon Dioxide. The peatland in the Congo Basin holds about 30 billion metric tons of Carbon which is roughly equivalent to two decades of fossil fuel emissions in the United States. The peat, which consists of […]