China-Africa trade reaches all-time high in 2021, showing resilience amid pandemic

STORY: China-Africa trade reaches all-time high in 2021, showing resilience amid pandemic DATELINE: Feb. 28, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:25 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Chinese-built Addis Ababa-Djibouti Standard Gauge Railway 2. Kenyan Naivasha Inland Container Depot (ICD) 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): WAMKELE MENE, Secretary-general of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) 4. various of the new Kenyan Mbita Bridge 5. various of Kenya's standard gauge railway (SGR) train station and the passengers 6. various of Kenya's Lamu port 7. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): STEPHEN NDEGWA, International relations lecturer, United States International University (USIU-Africa) 8 various of the Kenneth Kaunda International Conference Center in Lusaka, Zambia's capital 9. various of the Zimbabwean parliament building STORYLINE: China-Africa trade has bucked the global economic downward trend, and analysts believe it has contributed to the African economy's resilience in the face of COVID-19 challenge