Author: The Editorial Team

ACCRA (Capital Markets in Africa) — Ghana’s pharmaceutical industry has approached AstraZeneca Plc about acquiring the rights to manufacture the U.K. company’s vaccine locally, a move that could boost supplies and speed up the inoculation program in the country. The West African nation has to date received 966,850 doses of the inoculations from sources including the Covax initiative, which aims to ensure equitable access to Covid-19 shots, and has been allocated about 1.4 million more….

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) — Nestle SA, the world’s largest food company, warned the gap in access to Covid-19 vaccines threatens the global recovery from the pandemic as India and Brazil face a virus resurgence. The Swiss firm pledged more than 6 million francs ($6.6 million) to accelerate the delivery of shots to under-served communities around the world and partnered with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The World Health…

LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa) — Former Prime Minister David Cameron helped Lex Greensill lobby the Bank of England to make as much as 20 billion pounds ($28 billion) of funding available to companies as part of the financier’s campaign to get access to the government’s coronavirus assistance programs. As Cameron made “persistent” calls to Treasury officials as the firm sought to get access to financing from the Bank of England, he also contacted officials…