If South Africa was a powerful country, they [the UK] may not have behaved the same way because South Africa would retaliate.”Africa Insight Wake up to the essential with the Editor's picks. “Low vaccination rates in Southern African countries were used as a reason to justify these recent travel bans. It is still a long way off from African countries having the agency and capacity to manufacture these vaccines domestically. Transparency is key to fighting the pandemicA report on transparency in the development and procurement of Covid-19 vaccines by the WHO and Transparency International, a non-governmental anti-corruption organisation, highlights several factors to consider. People will eventually have to respect South African epidemiologists and scientists even more for the work we’re doing.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 12, 2021 20:19 UTC