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In tonight's edition: After struggling through the early years of the pandemic to get enough Covid 19 vaccinations, Africa's first factory to produce the doses says it may have to stop because it hasn't had enough orders. A former Congolese policemen gets a death sentence for murdereing a rights activist in 2010. And sanctions on Mali have hit Senegalese neighbouring towns. Within one month of the embargo exports to Mali have fallen by close to a quarter.
The European Commission, Germany, France and Belgium will invest €40 million to help six African countries produce mRNA vaccines at scale.View on euronews
Six African countries have been chosen to establish their own mRNA vaccine production, the World Health Organization said Friday. A ceremony marking the mRNA tech transfer announcement was to be held Friday in Brussels at the summit between the European Union and the African Union. FRANCE 24's Dave Keating reports from Brussels.
It comes with Europe in the midst of another wave of COVID, driven in some countries by the more transmissible Omicron variant.
The statement did not specify whether he had been infected with the Omicron variant.
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