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Ivorian president, Alassane Ouattara, rewarded players, coaches, and officials for their incredible win in the Africa Cup of Nations.
Announcement of the death of former President Rawlings pic.twitter.com/7ext0fp4sd
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National name: République de Côte dlvoire
Current government officials
Languages: French (official) and African languages (Dioula esp.)
Ethnicity/race: Akan 42.1%, Voltaiques (Gur) 17.6%, Northern Mandes 16.5%, Krous 11%, Southern Mandes 10%, other 2.8% (includes 130,000 Lebanese and 14,000 French) (1998)
National Holiday: Independence Day, August 7
Religions: Muslim 38.6%, Christian 32.8%, indigenous 11.9%, none 16.7% (2008 est.) note: the majority of foreigners (migratory workers) are Muslim (70%) and Christian (20%)
Literacy rate: 56.9% (2011 est.)
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2013 est.): $43.67 billion; per capita $1,800. Real growth rate: 8%. Inflation: 2.9%. Unemployment: n.a.. Arable land: 8.99%. Agriculture: coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, manioc (tapioca), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber; timber. Labor force: 7.928 million. Industries: foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, truck and bus assembly, textiles, fertilizer, building materials, electricity, ship construction and repair. Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, diamonds, manganese, iron ore, cobalt, bauxite, copper, hydropower. Exports: $12.96 billion (2013 est.): cocoa, coffee, timber, petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm oil, fish. Imports: $9.859 billion (2013 est.): fuel, capital equipment, foodstuffs. Major trading partners: France, Netherlands, U.S., Nigeria, Germany, Canada, China (2012).
Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: 268,000 (2012); mobile cellular: 19.827 million (2011). Broadcast media: 2 state-owned TV stations; no private terrestrial TV stations, but satellite TV subscription service is available; 2 state-owned radio stations; some private radio stations; transmissions of several international broadcasters are available (2007). Internet hosts: 9,115 (2012). Internet users: 967,300 (2009).
Transportation: Railways: total: 660 km (2007). Roadways: total: 81,996 km (2007 est.). Waterways: 980 km (navigable rivers, canals, and numerous coastal lagoons) (2011).
There are now more than over 100,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
According to the latest data by the John Hopkins University and Africa Center for Disease Control on COVID-19 in Africa, the breakdown remains fluid as countries confirm cases as and when.
As of May 13, every African country had recorded an infection, the last being Lesotho.
We shall keep updating this list largely sourced from the John Hopkins University tallies, Africa CDC and from official government data.
SUGGESTED READING: Africa’s COVID-19 deaths pass 100,000 mark
Major African stats: May 26 at 6:00 GMT:
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\t\tConfirmed cases = 115,892
\t\tNumber of deaths = 3,479
\t\tRecoveries = 46,553
\t\tActive cases = 65,860
Countries in alphabetical order
\t\tAlgeria – 8,503
\t\tAngola – 70
\t\tBenin – 191
\t\tBotswana – 35
\t\tBurkina Faso – 832
\t\tBurundi – 42
\t\tCameroon – 4,890
\t\tCape Verde – 390
\t\tCentral African Republic – 652
\t\tChad – 687
\t\tComoros – 87
\t\tCongo-Brazzaville – 487
\t\tDR Congo – 2,297
\t\tDjibouti – 2,468
\t\tEgypt – 17,967
\t\tEquatorial Guinea – 1,043
\t\tEritrea – 39
\t\tEswatini – 256
\t\tEthiopia – 655
\t\tGabon – 2,135
\t\t(The) Gambia – 25
\t\tGhana – 6,808
\t\tGuinea – 3,275
\t\tGuinea-Bissau – 1,178
\t\tIvory Coast – 2,423
\t\tKenya – 1,286
\t\tLesotho – 2
\t\tLiberia – 265
\t\tLibya – 75
\t\tMadagascar – 542
\t\tMalawi – 101
\t\tMali – 1,059
\t\tMauritania – 262
\t\tMauritius – 334
\t\tMorocco – 7,532
\t\tMozambique – 209
\t\tNamibia – 21
\t\tNiger – 951
\t\tNigeria – 8,068
\t\tRwanda – 336
\t\tSao Tome and Principe – 299
\t\tSenegal – 3,130
\t\tSeychelles – 11
\t\tSierra Leone – 735
\t\tSomalia – 1,689
\t\tSouth Africa – 23,615
\t\tSouth Sudan – 806
\t\tSudan – 3,976
\t\tTanzania – 509
\t\tTogo – 386
\t\tTunisia – 1,051
\t\tUganda – 222
\t\tZambia – 920
\t\tZimbabwe – 56
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The U.S. reported a record-high 121,888 new coronavirus cases Thursday — the second straight day the country has set a new mark for daily cases.
The U.S. reported 35,112 new coronavirus cases Monday, including 445 deaths, according to a Johns Hopkins University tracker.
Salif Keita , (born Aug. 25, 1949, Djoliba, Mali), Malian singer-songwriter known for blending elements of a wide range of local African—especially Mande—music traditions with jazz, rhythm and blues, and other international popular-music styles to pioneer the Afropop dance-music genre.
In spite of a noble lineage tracing back to Sundiata Keita, the 13th-century founder of the Malian empire, Salif Keita grew up as an outsider in several important respects. First, he was raised not in an environment of royal affluence but in a poor farming household. Second, owing to his albinism—a condition traditionally viewed as a harbinger of misfortune—he found himself a pariah, rejected by both his family and his community. His choice to pursue music, moreover, violated the occupational prohibitions of his noble status and, consequently, distanced him even farther from his family.
When he was 18 years old, Keita moved to Mali’s capital, Bamako, and began performing as a singer in nightclubs. After about two years, he joined the popular government-sponsored group Rail Band, notable for its electrified mixture of traditional Mande music and Afro-Caribbean popular styles. In the early 1970s Keita and Rail Band guitarist Kanté Manfila left for Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, to join Les Ambassadeurs du Motel (later Les Ambassadeurs Internationales), a rival group that was similarly recognized for its fusion of local African traditions with internationally appealing popular genres. By the late ’70s Keita’s singing and innovative work with Les Ambassadeurs resonated strongly and positively beyond the boundaries of Côte d’Ivoire and Mali; for his ever-broadening fan base, he was the “golden voice of Africa.” Indeed, in 1977 Guinean president Sékou Touré conferred on him the National Order of Guinea, a prestigious honour. Keita reciprocated by composing “Mandjou,” a praise song for Touré and the people of Mali. The song was accompanied melodically by guitars, organ, and saxophone—a combination that had by that time become Keita’s
National name: République de Mali
Languages: French (official), Bambara 46.3%, Peul/foulfoulbe 9.4%, Dogon 7.2%, Maraka/soninke 6.4%, Malinke 5.6%, Sonrhai/djerma 5.6%, Minianka 4.3%, Tamacheq 3.5%, Senoufo 2.6%, unspecified 0.6%, other 8.5%. note: Mali has 13 national languages in addition to its official language
Ethnicity/race: Mande 50% (Bambara, Malinke, Soninke), Peul 17%, Voltaic 12%, Songhai 6%, Tuareg and Moor 10%, other 5%
Religions: Muslim 94.8%, Christian 2.4%, Animist 2%, none 0.5%, unspecified 0.3% (2009 Census)
National Holiday: Independence Day, September 22
Literacy rate: 33.4% (2011 est.)
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2013 est.): $18.9 billion; per capita $1,100. Real growth rate: 4.8%. Inflation: 0.1%. Unemployment: 30% (2004 est.). Arable land: 5.53%. Agriculture: cotton, millet, rice, corn, vegetables, peanuts; cattle, sheep, goats. Labor force: 3.241 million (2007 est.); agriculture and fishing 80%, industry and services 20% (2005 est.). Industries: food processing; construction; phosphate and gold mining. Natural resources: gold, phosphates, kaolin, salt, limestone, uranium, hydropower; note: bauxite, iron ore, manganese, tin, and copper deposits are known but not exploited. Exports: $2.577 billion (2013 est.): cotton, gold, livestock. Imports: $2.895 billion (2012 est.): petroleum, machinery and equipment, construction materials, foodstuffs, textiles. Major trading partners: China, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, France, Senegal, Côte dIvoire (2012).
Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: 112,000 (2012); mobile cellular: 14.613 million (2011). Broadcast media: national public TV broadcaster; 2 privately owned companies provide subscription services to foreign multi-channel TV packages; national public radio broadcaster supplemented by a large number of privately owned and community broadcast stations; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are available (2007). Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 437 (2012). Internet users: 249,800
Other countries scheduled to hold elections are Egypt, Guinea, Seychelles and Tanzania.
For countries that do hold elections, there may be special voting arrangements that can allow polls to go ahead but reduce the risk of spreading the virus.
In South Korea's elections in mid-April, the electoral commission encouraged people to vote before election day at any of the 3,500 polling stations throughout the country.
This not only decongested polling stations on election day but contributed to the highest turnout in the country for nearly 30 years.
This means that countries planning to hold elections in 2020 or early-2021 need to start discussing these arrangements - across party lines and among multiple relevant agencies - as soon as possible.
178 people tested positive for the disease in the last 24 hours.
BY SHARON SIBINDI RENOWNED Zimbabwean musician Vusa Mkhaya (pictured) is ecstatic after his album, UManyanyatha — Songs from the Soul of Zimbabwe, featured in the Australia’s iTunes top 100 chart on July 28. The album, which was released in June, debuted at number 85 and was followed by Adele’s album, 21, at number 86 and Ed Sheeran’s Deluxe at 87. “I was surprised when I heard that I am on the list. It feels good to have my name on the same list with well-known artistes like Adele and many more. The top 100 chart is for a month. At the end of August, a new list comes out and I hope I will still be inside,” Mkhaya told NewsDay Life & Style. Mkhaya said he did not submit the album to the top 100 chart, but was based on the iTunes sales and streams in Australia. “Every country around the world has it. My biggest surprise is that I have never performed in Australia, but it seems some people are buying my music there,” he said. “The album is now in more than 15 countries and counting. My wish is that it reaches more countries, hoping that I can travel to those countries when things get back to normal.” Mkhaya said his wish was to have his album on rotation in Zimbabwe radios so that Zimbabweans can also be able to listen to the songs. “As much as I am excited. It makes me a bit sad that in Zimbabwe the album is not celebrated like in other countries at the moment,” he said.
Voting. A word defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “an expression of opinion or preference.” A concept well known by all Americans, as it should, considering our many things about this country are decided by elections. President, judges, mayors and governors are all voted upon by the general population; and if not, they are decided by elected officials.
Ethnicity/race: Mossi (over 40%), Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, Mande, Fulani
National Holiday: Republic Day, December 11
Religions: Muslim 60.5%, Catholic 19%, animist 15.3%, Protestant 4.2%, other 0.6%, none 0.4% (2006 est.)
Literacy rate: 28.7% (2007 est.)
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2013 est.): $26.51 billion; per capita $1,500. Real growth rate: 6.5%. Inflation: 2.1%. Unemployment: 77% Arable land: 20.79%. Agriculture: cotton, peanuts, shea nuts, sesame, sorghum, millet, corn, rice; livestock. Labor force: 6.668 million; note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment (2003); agriculture 90%, industry and services 10% (2000 est.). Industries: cotton lint, beverages, agricultural processing, soap, cigarettes, textiles, gold. Natural resources: manganese, limestone, marble; small deposits of gold, phosphates, pumice, salt. Exports: $2.844 billion (2013 est.): cotton, livestock, gold. Imports: $2.941 billion (2013 est.): capital goods, food products, petroleum. Major trading partners: China, Ghana, France, Côte dIvoire, Togo, Turkey, Belgium (2012).
Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: 141,000 (2012); mobile cellular: 9.98 million (2012). Broadcast media: 2 TV stations - 1 state-owned and 1 privately owned; state-owned radio runs a national and regional network; substantial number of privately owned radio stations; transmissions of several international broadcasters available in Ouagadougou (2007). Internet hosts: 1,795 (2012). Internet users: 178,100 (2009).
Transportation: Railways: total: 622 km (2008). Roadways: total: 15,272 km (2010). Ports and harbors: none. Airports: 23 (2013 est.).
International disputes: adding to illicit cross-border activities, Burkina Faso has issues concerning unresolved boundary alignments with its neighbors; demarcation is currently underway with Mali, the dispute with Niger was referred to the ICJ in 2010, and a dispute over several villages with Benin persists; Benin retains a border dispute with Burkina
Dr. Leonard Hall OConnell Spearman was the U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda and Lesotho. A native of Tallahassee, Florida, Spearman was born July 8, 1929. In 1947 Spearman graduated from Florida A&M College (now Florida A&M University), in Tallahassee, Florida, with a B.S. in biological sciences. He obtained his Master of Arts in 1950 from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in clinical psychology. Spearman remained at the University of Michigan and completed his Doctorate of Philosophy in 1960 in the same field.
Leonard Spearman was an educator during the first two decades of his career, working at various colleges and universities. Spearman was a psychology professor at his alma mater Florida A&M. He held the same position at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He taught at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas, and at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland. Spearman also served as a visiting professor at Queens College in Queens, New York. In addition, he was a Martin Luther King Lecturer at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
From 1970 to 1979, Spearman worked at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the division that is now the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C. His highest position with the department was as Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary within the office of Postsecondary Education. As Associate Deputy, Spearman oversaw the Federal Government’s Trio Programs which provided assistance to lower income people who wanted to attend college. During his nine-year tenure he expanded the programs to assist more college and university students.
From 1980 to 1986, Spearman served as president at Texas Southern University. In 2003, because of Spearman’s years of academic service to Texas Southern, the university dedicated the Leonard Spearman Technology Building to the former ambassador.
On February 5, 1988, President George H.W. Bush nominated Spearman as U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda. Following U.S. Senate confirmation, Spearman
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U.S. Department of State Background Note
Guinea is located on the Atlantic Coast of West Africa and is bordered by Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Côte dIvoire, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The country is divided into four geographic regions: A narrow coastal belt (Lower Guinea); the pastoral Fouta Djallon highlands (Middle Guinea); the northern savannah (Upper Guinea); and a southeastern rain-forest region (Forest Guinea). The Niger, Gambia, and Senegal Rivers are among the 22 West African rivers that have their origins in Guinea.
The coastal region of Guinea and most of the inland have a tropical climate, with a rainy season lasting from April to November, relatively high and uniform temperatures, and high humidity. Conakrys year-round average high is 29oC (85oF), and the low is 23oC (74oF); its average annual rainfall is 430 centimeters (169 inches). Sahelian Upper Guinea has a shorter rainy season and greater daily temperature variations.
Guinea has four main ethnic groups:
West Africans make up the largest non-Guinean population. Non-Africans total about 10,000 (mostly Lebanese, French, and other Europeans). Seven national languages are used extensively; major written languages are French, Peuhl, and Arabic.
The area occupied by Guinea today was included in several large West African political groupings, including the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai empires, at various times from the 10th to the 15th century, when the region came into contact with European commerce. Guineas colonial period began with French military penetration into the area in the mid-19th century. French domination was assured by the defeat in 1898 of the armies of Almamy Samory Touré, warlord and leader of Malinke descent, which gave France control of what today is Guinea and adjacent areas.
France negotiated Guineas present boundaries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the British for Sierra Leone, the Portuguese for their Guinea colony (now Guinea-Bissau), and the Liberia. Under the French, the country formed the Territory
The United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan began July 2011 when the Republic of South Sudan officially became the newest country in Africa, having split from The Sudan. The split came after decades of war, and the peace remains fragile. In December 2013, renewed violence broke out, and the UNMISS team was accused of partisanship.
A cessation of hostilities was reached 23 January 2014, and the UN authorized further troops for the Mission, which continues to supply humanitarian aid. As of June 2015 the Mission had 12,523 service personnel and more then 2,000 civilian staff members.
The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei began June 2011. It was tasked with protecting civilians in the region of Abyei, along the border between The Sudan and what became the Republic of South Sudan. The Force is also tasked with helping The Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan with stabilizing their border near Abyei. In May 2013, the UN expanded the force. As of June 2015, the Force was comprised of 4,366 service personnel and more than 200 civilian staff members and UN volunteers.
The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo commenced 28 May 2010. It replaced the UN Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
While the Second Congo War officially ended in 2002, fighting continues, particularly in the eastern Kivu region of the DRC. The MONUSCO force is authorized to use force if need be to protect civilians and humanitarian personnel. It was due to be withdrawn in March 2015, but was extended into 2016.
The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) was created 19 September 2003 during the Second Liberian Civil War. It replaced the UN Peace-building Support Office in Liberia. The warring factions signed a peace agreement in August 2003, and general elections were held in 2005. The UNMILs current mandate includes continuing to protect civilians from any violence and providing humanitarian aid. It is also tasked with assisting the
There are now more than over 260,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
Major African stats: June 18 at 07:30 GMT:
\t\tConfirmed cases = 267,818
\t\tNumber of deaths = 7,219
\t\tRecoveries = 123,054
\t\tActive cases = 137,545
\t\tAlgeria – 11,268
\t\tAngola – 155
\t\tBenin – 572
\t\tBotswana – 79
\t\tBurkina Faso – 899
\t\tBurundi – 104
\t\tCameroon – 9,864
\t\tCape Verde – 792
\t\tCentral African Republic – 2,564
\t\tChad – 854
\t\tComoros – 197
\t\tCongo-Brazzaville – 883
\t\tDR Congo – 5,100
\t\tDjibouti – 4,545
\t\tEgypt – 49,219
\t\tEquatorial Guinea – 1,664
\t\tEritrea – 131
\t\tEswatini – 563
\t\tEthiopia – 3,759
\t\tGabon – 4,229
\t\t(The) Gambia – 34
\t\tGhana – 12,590
\t\tGuinea – 4,668
\t\tGuinea-Bissau – 1,492
\t\tIvory Coast – 6,063
\t\tKenya – 4,044
\t\tLesotho – 4
\t\tLiberia – 516
\t\tLibya – 500
\t\tMadagascar – 1,378
\t\tMalawi – 572
\t\tMali – 1,890
\t\tMauritania – 2,223
\t\tMauritius – 337
\t\tMorocco – 8,997
\t\tMozambique – 651
\t\tNamibia – 36
\t\tNiger – 1,020
\t\tNigeria – 17,735
\t\tRwanda – 639
\t\tSao Tome and Principe – 683
\t\tSenegal – 5,369
\t\tSierra Leone – 1,249
\t\tSomalia – 2,696
\t\tSouth Africa – 80,412
\t\tSouth Sudan – 1,813
\t\tSudan – 8,020
\t\tTogo – 544
\t\tTunisia – 1,128
\t\tUganda – 732
\t\tZambia – 1,412
\t\tZimbabwe – 401
South Africa expects to receive its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines from the global vaccine distribution scheme, Covax, in the second quarter of 2021.
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So with COVID-19 threatening to overwhelm health systems, the extensive polio response network is once again lending crucial support as countries build up systems to contain COVID-19,\" said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO Regional Director for Africa.
Mobile phone applications originally developed for health workers to use in polio outbreak response and disease surveillance have been adapted by WHO to be used against COVID-19.
In addition, WHO Geographic Information System (GIS) centre in Brazzaville - which was opened in 2017 to support the polio programme with adapted technologies and data management - is using its huge experience in outbreak response and disease surveillance to support countries with a range of GIS and software technology and manual solutions to respond to COVID-19.
Alongside the support to the COVID-19 response, WHO polio staff are also maintaining critical functions and planning to resume mass polio immunization campaigns once the situation permits.
\"It is important that the support to COVID-19 response does not jeopardize the progress made in stopping all forms of polio transmission in the region.
The referee has been at a few international competitions which include, the WAFU Women Champion’s League and the Aisha Buhari Tournament, among others.
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The former president and first lady gave sound guidance for scary times.
The State Department on Thursday lifted its advisory against traveling abroad, more than four months after urging U.S. citizens to avoid leaving the country amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Many of us are quick to blame Covid-19 pandemic for the mess we are in yet even before the pandemic we were fighting epic existential battles.
Geographic coordinates: 28° 00 N, 3° 00 E
Area: total - 2,381,740 sq km, land - 2,381,740 sq km, water - 0 sq km
Land boundaries: total - 6,343 km
Border countries: Libya 982 km, Mali 1,376 km, Mauritania 463 km, Morocco 1,559 km, Niger 956 km, Tunisia 965 km, Western Sahara 42 km
Geographic coordinates: 11° 00 N, 10° 00 W
Area: total – 245,857 sq km, land – 245,857 sq km, water – 0 sq km
Land boundaries: total – 3,399 km
Border countries: Cote dIvoire 610 km, Guinea-Bissau 386 km, Liberia 563 km, Mali 858 km, Senegal 330 km, Sierra Leone 652 km
Area: total – 36,120 sq km, land – 28,000 sq km, water – 8,120 sq km
Area: total – 30,355 sq km, land – 30,355 sq km, water – 0 sq km
Area: total – 752,614 sq km, land – 740,724 sq km, water – 11,890 sq km
Land boundaries: total – 5,664 km
During Keshi's successful stints as head coach for the national teams of Togo, Mali and of course with Nigeria, Houdonou was a constant figure in Keshi's backroom staff.
Houdonou: Every coach has its own methods, and Keshi felt if Togo and Mali can excel in Africa with a mixture of local and foreign-based players, why not Nigeria that is blessed with a higher percentage of talents?
That was how we got Egwueke, Oboabona, Mba and Oshaniwa
PT: Some players said Keshi demanded cash for shirt before 2014 World Cup in Brazil
Houdonou : (Cuts in) Let people talk.
Rohr is a good coach, he is doing a good job with the national team, but to say there are no good players in the league is totally not unacceptable.
I believe if Rohr can give his local coaches the needed tools to scout, they will fish out good players from the league.
The possible return of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo to the Côte d’Ivoire after his acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity might well be the catalyst for negotiations in that country, argues Thabo Mbeki.
These decisions concern the future of Mr Laurent Gbagbo, former President of Côte d’Ivoire.
Mr Gbagbo served as President of Côte d’Ivoire from 26 October, 2000 until 2011.
The Forum therefore pleaded with the ICC Prosecutor, Ms Bensouda, to withdraw the charges against Mr Gbagbo and therefore allow him to return home to contribute everything in his power to the achievement of the said national reconciliation.
Mr Bedie, himself a former President of Côte d’Ivoire, supported Mr Ouattara during the 2010 and 2015 Presidential elections and his party served in the Ouattara governments in coalition with President Ouattara’s RDR.
[Daily Maverick] Without a magic wand, no country will immediately be able to vaccinate very large numbers of people, but for developing countries, the hurdles between approval in the northern hemisphere and a jab in the arm in the 'global south' are infinitely more challenging.
