In the Gombe State of Nigeria, local hospitals faced grave challenges in infrastructure, water and power supply, a lack of capacity of healthcare providers and supply chain problems, until the arrival of help from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), with support from the Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund (GDSSCF) established by the Chinese government.
Xu Wei, director-general of the Department of International Cooperation of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), attended and addressed the South-South Cooperation Directors General Forum for Sustainable Development (DG Forum), on Sept 14.
Tian Lin, director-general of the Department of Supervision and Evaluation of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), attended and addressed the opening ceremony of the China-Europe-Africa Green Energy Development Forum on Sept 7.
Sept 12 is United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation.
Faisal Naseem, director of the Provincial Disaster Management Authority Balochistan in Pakistan, briefed the Chinese government on the flood situation and usage of China-aided supplies on Sept 6.
The Online Seminar on Enhancing Professional Competence for Cambodian Civil Servants closed on Sept 5.
Senior US officials in charge of international development cooperation and multilateral affairs have recently delivered several speeches on global food security, accusing China of hoarding food, which they claim has pushed up food prices and exacerbated the global food crisis. Demanding that China provide debt relief for poor countries, they have been criticizing China's foreign aid policy.
A new shipment of 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, together with 13 million hypodermic syringes and two mobile nucleic acid test vehicles donated by the Chinese government arrived in Yangon, Myanmar on May 29.