US biotech Billionaire Patrick Soon Shiong and South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa officially launched NantSA Vaccine production hub, a vaccine manufacturing facility aimed at producing COVID-19 vaccines to stop COVID -19. Located in Cape Town the facility seeks to manufacture 1 billion COVID-19 vaccines doses a year, from scratch to finish by 2025. This COVID-19…
The East African (EAC) member states lost $3.36Bn worth of trade in the year when COVID-19 struck. Mitigation measures to curb the spread of the virus led to cutting off of major global trade links through lockdowns. This is according to the latest draft report on EAC Trade and Investment for 2020. Notably, Uganda was the…
Did Twitter throw Nigerians under the bus? On Jan. 13, the Nigerian government lifted the suspension of Twitter, ending a seven-month embargo of the microblogging site in Africa’s most populous nation. However, it appears that the lifting of the Twitter suspension came with a rolling back of freedom of expression, as demanded by the government…