Is Africa turning into a Covid crybaby?
The vaccines complaint has become hollow and cheap, low-hanging fruit for activists and politicians
12 December 2021 - 00:02
It was uncomfortable watching President Cyril Ramaphosa flit around West Africa last week complaining about how the rich West was hoarding vaccines while poor Africans got none. This from a leader who is sitting on a vaccine stockpile of his own and has run out of people to give it to...
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