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China Daily Africa | Updated: 2015-03-13 09:30

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Festival ways: Chinese teach Zimbabweans to make sweet dumplings at the Chinese embassy in Harare on March 4, the eve of Lantern Festival, Scores of diplomatic spouses, Chinese living in Zimbabwe and local Zimbabweans were introduced to Lantern Festival rituals. Xinhua

History wrought with iron: A visitor inspects an old locomotive at the Nairobi Railway Museum, in Nairobi on March 4. The museum, the only one of its kind in East Africa, is adjacent to the city's railway station. Pan Siwei / Xinhua

Healed, hale and hearty: Beatrice Yordoldo (front left), the last confirmed Ebola patient discharged from hospital in Liberia, receives a certificate from Colonel Yang Haiwei (front right), commanding officer of China's Ebola treatment unit, in a ceremony in Monrovia, capital of Liberia, on March 5. Li Bin / Xinhua

Medical help: Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe (front center), the country's Health Minister David Parirenyatwa (second left, front), and China's Ambassador to Zimbabwe Lin Lin (front, second right) inspect medical devices during a ceremony at Harare Central Hospital on March 5. Shipments of devices, backed by a Chinese loan of $100 million, have been arriving in Zimbabwe. Xu Lingui / Xinhua

Let the water flow: Diriba Kuma, mayor of Addis Ababa (left), Hailemariem Desalegn the Ethiopian President (right), and La Yifan, China's Ambassador to Ethiopia, at the inauguration ceremony for Addis Ababa's water and sewerage authority phase 3 ground water development project in the capital on March 8. The project was financed by Exim Bank of China. Michael Tewelde / Xinhua

Tobacco protest: Tobacco farmers protest against low auction prices in front of the Boka Tobacco Auction Floors in Harare, Zimbabwe, on March 4, the first day of the tobacco-selling season. Production of Virginia tobacco in the country is likely to fall by up to 15 percent this year because of unfavorable rainfall patterns, a senior official has said. Xinhua