COVID-19 vaccine in Africa: Caught between China's soft-power diplomacy and the West's vaccine nationalism, Part II  · Global Voices
Nurse Nosipho Khanyile dons her PPE before entering the “Red Zone” at the special COVID-19 Field Hospital in Nasrec, Johannesburg. Image by IMF Photo/James Oatway, July 24, 2020, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Editor’s note: This is a two-part analysis on the politics behind Africa’s procurement of the COVID-19 vaccines. The continent was forced to look towards China, rather than the West. Read Part I here. China has deep historical roots when it comes to medical aid in Africa. For example, a...
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