Africa

South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare will start supplying its branded COVID-19 vaccine to African nations by June, its chief executive told Reuters on Wednesday, ...

The company is increasing its vaccine capacity from roughly 450 million doses now to 750 million by February 2023. "I think we want to see where the volumes go sustainably. In November 2020 J&J contracted Aspen to package the COVID-19 vaccine components into final vials, a process called fill and finish, and supply it back to J&J. Under the terms of the deal, Aspen is currently supplying 20 million doses per month to J&J.

South African drugmaker Aspen Pharmacare has announced an agreement with American multinational Johnson & Johnson to package, sell and distribute the ...

The South African pharmaceutical company will sell and distribute the vaccines, under its own packaging, across Africa. The South African pharmaceutical company will sell and distribute the vaccines, under its own packaging, across Africa. South African drugmaker Aspen Pharmacare has announced an agreement with American multinational Johnson & Johnson to package, sell and distribute the latter’s COVID-19 vaccines under its own brand in Africa.

Drawing from its Syria playbook, Russia has propped up proxies in Libya, Central African Republic, Mali and Sudan. Moscow also has its sights on another half ...

This week on Intercepted: Investigative reporter Nick Turse details the U.S. involvement on the African continent. U.S.-trained officers have attempted coups in ...

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South Africa's Aspen has clinched its COVID-19 vaccine licensing deal with Johnson & Johnson in a move the company last year said could be a “game-changer” ...

Drawing from its Syria playbook, Russia has propped up proxies in Libya, Central African Republic, Mali and Sudan. Moscow also has its sights on another half ...

This has contributed to the upsurge of coups as well as the use of militaries as a coercive tool against political opponents. This legally prohibits African states from allowing mercenaries into their territory and should be employed to bar Wagner from the continent. Civil society can also heighten scrutiny and transparency of opaque contracts that tend to provide the patronage that props up coopted regimes. It’s reasonable that African governments will want to have multiple external relationships subject to their context and interests. The powerful speech by Kenya’s ambassador to the United Nations, Martin Kimani, in defence of respecting sovereignty, territorial integrity, and resolving differences through non-violent means, epitomises the views of this group and its support for a rules-based order. Third, building the capacity and space of African journalists is especially vital. The African countries that abstained, or did not vote, did so for a variety of reasons. The United Nations’ vote on Russia’s invasion in Ukraine provides a useful prism to understand relationships between Moscow and particular African countries. But I calculated that the median Global Freedom score for this group of 28 countries based on Freedom House’s annual (0-100) ratings is 20 points higher than those that did not vote to condemn. In total, 28 of Africa’s 54 countries voted to condemn the Russian invasion, 16 abstained and 9 did not vote. By and large, they support the upholding of international law to maintain peace and security. Never mind that this diverges wildly from the democratic aspirations held by the vast majority of African citizens.