Vaccine Apartheid

Dangor said the US argument that if one G20 member was absent from the leaders summit, then there could be no consensus, had been voted down

Director general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said South Africa’s G20 presidency highlighted the importance of trade within WTO rules and reforming the system through local mineral…

Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said countries understood ‘that there’s a bilateral issue between South Africa and the US, but that must not, in any shape or form,…

In an apparent reference to US President Donald Trump’s absence, Ramaphosa warned against allowing ‘anything to diminish the value, the stature or the impact of the first African…

The panel, chaired by Nobel prize-winner economist Joseph Stiglitz, will produce recommendations to help bridge the rich-poor divide

Countries on the continent responded effectively to the virus despite the dire predictions of some in the West

At the inaugural AU-Caribbean Community summit, leaders called for greater solidarity to prevent global exclusion

Eligible COP26 attendees are expected to receive their UK-sponsored Covid-19 jabs this week, but the Climate Action Network says it is too late

Africa’s particular logistical challenges require inventive solutions for keeping vaccines cold while not relying on the electricity grid

Testing and isolating the infected are still the most effective response to the pandemic

Pfizer is accused of bullying Latin American governments by demanding they grant indemnity against potential civil claims relating to the vaccine

The West bought billions of vaccines fast and cheap, leaving poorer nations paying through the nose for years to come