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China Daily Africa | Updated: 2017-06-09 09:48

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Welcome: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta gets off a train at the Nairobi Terminus of the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway on May 31. Li Baishun / Xinhua

Bank launch: Chen Siqing, president of Bank of China, and Manuel da Cruz Neto, minister and head of the President's Civil Office of Angola, attend the BOC Luanda branch unveiling ceremony on June 5. It is the first Chinese bank in Angola. Wu Changwei / Xinhua

Learning a trade: Trainees attend a class at the ELMAN training center in Mogadishu, Somalia. The center is an NGO that cooperates with the United Nations Children's Fund. More than 1,630 children and teenagers have taken vocational training courses. Most of the students were former child soldiers or affected by armed groups. Sun Ruibo / Xinhua

Getting started: La Yifan (third from left), China's ambassador to Ethiopia, Mulatu Teshome, president of Ethiopia (center) and Diriba Kuma, mayor of Addis Ababa's City Administration, lay a foundation stone for a state-of-the-art convention and exhibition center in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, on June 3. Michael Tewelde / Xinhua

Passing on a tradition: A Confucius Institute teacher instructs pupils in traditional Chinese paper-cutting during an International Children's Day celebration in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana, on June 1. Xinhua

Hot stuff: A South African Air Force Rooivalk helicopter disperses flash devices during the 2017 Air Capability Demonstration at Roodewal bombing range in Limpopo province, South Africa, on June 1. The SAAF members conducted the demonstration in collaboration with the South African Army, Military Health Service and Special Forces Brigade. Zhai Jianlan / Xinhua

Help for the hungry: He Xiangdong, Chinese ambassador to South Sudan, Joyce Luma (left), World Food Programme representative and country director in South Sudan, and Peter Gatwech Kulang, undersecretary of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, pose for a group photo during a handover ceremony in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, on June 6. Gale Julius / Xinhua

(China Daily Africa Weekly 06/09/2017 page5)