How Chinese media ignores the environmental toll of the Belt and Road Initiative in Africa

How Chinese media ignores the environmental toll of the Belt and Road Initiative in Africa

African stories have become central to China’s ‘Tell China’s Story Well’ strategyOriginally published on Global VoicesThe Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway, one of China's Belt and Road Initiative projects in Kenya. Image from Wikimedia Commons. License CC BY-SA 4.0 This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Ch…