Macron says France will help Africa make more COVID-19 vaccines locally

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President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday France would invest in boosting the production of COVID-19 vaccines in Africa, to help close a gap in the availability of the shots between African and Western nations.

Speaking at a joint news conference with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria, Macron said Africa made up around 20% of the world's need for vaccines but only 1% of vaccine production.

He said France already had a partnership with South Africa's Biovac Institute. Later on Friday, Macron opened another one with South African pharmaceutical company Aspen. At the launch of his vaccine support initiative at Pretoria University, Macron called for regulated vaccine prices to prevent African nations being ripped off.

 

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The term help has imperial connotations, suggesting Africa is helpless; it is not. If anything it is the other way, given France has been plundering African resources to prop up its economy, which would be nowhere near where it is without African inputs. So rephrase your headline

French people are the most betrayers in the whole euro they loot but you can’t get anything from them all the French speaking they owe their own money france big cash

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