Global Forum for Vaccine Sovereignty and Innovation
Based on the lessons learned from the Covid pandemic, the mechanism is an important step in giving African countries health sovereignty. It aims to do this by helping the African Union to meet its goal of manufacturing at least 60% of the vaccine doses needed by Africa on the African continent by 2040.
Faye, as a left-wing pan-Africanist, however, has insisted the partnership should from now on be mutually beneficial.In May, Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko said his country's wish to determine its path was"incompatible with the entrenched presence of foreign military bases" on Senegalese soil.