Africa has to learn some tough lessons about health security from the way the pandemic showed '…how easily international and multilateral agreements can dissolve especially in the face of a global crisis' according to John Nkengasong outgoing head of the Africa CDC and Christian Happi senior researcher in molecular biology writing in Nature...

Outgoing head of the African Centers for Disease Control John Nkengasong told journalists on 9 December that India's Serum Institute had added to distribution problems by withdrawing from negotiations to supply Africa...

EU ambassador to the African Union (AU) Birgitte Markussen and John Nkengasong Director of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention issued a joint statement urging the Serum Institute of India which manufactures Covishield to apply for authorisation by the European Medicines Agency...

Africa Centres for Disease Control director John Nkengasong and WHO Africa Director Matshidiso Moeti called for early negotiations to build on the US announcement...

As outgoing chairman of the African Union Ramaphosa and the Africa Centres for Disease Control's John Nkengasong have been battling with big pharmaceutical companies and government bureaucracies to organise shipments of vaccines across the continent...