The European Investment Bank (EIB) committed 75 million euros ($80 million) on Thursday to finance construction of a new facility in Senegal that will produce COVID-19 and other vaccines for use across Africa. The plant, run by the Dakar-based Institut Pasteur, is intended to help Africa reduce its dependence on[Read More…]
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Barrow’s Malabo Trip: More To It Than Meets The Eye?
There was a time in the recent past when The Gambia and Equatorial Guinea were never mentioned in the same breath but all that changed in the aftermath of the post-electoral dispute in 2016 which triggered a political crisis in mainland Africa’s smallest country. The dispute eventually ended with defeated[Read More…]
Senegal Refugees Crowd Gambian Villages After Separatist Fighting
Stray bullets whistled past Senegalese villager Modou Badjie and his family as they ran through a cashew forest in the middle of the night to reach neighbouring Gambia. Badjie, his three wives, many children and extended family members are among more than 690 people who have crossed the border to[Read More…]
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