Sources: BBC
Environmental investigators determine that the February 2025 failure of a tailings dam owned by a Chinese copper mining company dumped 50 million liters of highly toxic waste into the Kafue River basin, killing ecosystems up to 100 km (62 mi) downstream and impacting the water supply, fishing activities, and irrigation of 60% of Zambia's population. 2025-03-15
The China Meteorological Administration issues a low-temperature warning, forecasting a cold wave affecting most of the country. 2023-12-16
The United Nations announces that the conference of the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity initially scheduled to take place in Kunming, China, later this year will be moved to Montreal, Canada, due to logistical complications caused by China's Zero-COVID policy. 2022-06-21
Twenty-one people are dead and 6,000 are evacuated as heavy rains impact five cities in Hubei Province, China. 2021-08-13
Namibia receives a shipment of 250,000 doses of the Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV vaccine from China. 2021-07-16
China's National Radio and Television Administration bans BBC World News, in response to British telecommunications regulator Ofcom revoking the television license for the state-run China Global Television Network last week. 2021-02-11
Fisker Automotive in bankruptcy, asks the judge to reject the official creditors' committee's plan for an auction. The proposed auction would be based on an initial $24.725 million bid from the U.S. unit of Wanxiang Group, a major auto parts concern in China. 2014-01-2
China's President Xi Jinping vows to intensify ties with Africa, as he addresses leaders in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on his first trip to the continent. 2013-03-25
A bus catches fire after falling into a ravine in Gansu province, China, killing 18 people and injuring 34 others. 2013-02-2
China cracks down on dissenters, banning two leading human rights lawyers from practicing and exiling a leading HIV-AIDS campaigner from the country. 2010-05-11