Rwandan President Kagame Wants To Build Africa’s First mRNA Vaccine Plant. Can He Do It?

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Sanyade Okoli, CEO of Alpha African Advisory, spoke to the Global Business Report about President Kagame of Rwanda’s mission to build Africa’s first mRNA plant to produce COVID vaccines. She also weighed in on the debate on waving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines to allow poorer countries produce them. The United States is in favor, but Pharmaceutical companies that produce them are not. Where do you stand? Should poorer countries be allowed to copy the COVID-19 vaccine blueprint and produce it for themselves? Angela Merkel of Germany says no.

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