Post-Covid Africa should come up with own solutions to its problems
A Covid-19 vaccination centre in Johannesburg. To date, the continent has only vaccinated a tenth of its 1.23 billion people, short of the 70 percent rate UN target PHOTO | AFP
Africa, like the rest of the world, was battered by Covid-19 pandemic, which exposed glaring gaps in global relations.
But a new report from US think-tank Brookings Institution says the continent, while learning from others, will have to devise local solutions from correcting its politics to ensuring both boys and girls attend school, empowering women and ramping up vaccination.