South African activists called for full disclosure (AP) of the government’s contracts with U.S. drug company Johnson & Johnson after the New York Times reported that the government waived its rights to ban exports of domestically produced vaccines. Amid a shortage of vaccines in South Africa, the drugmaker has been filling and finishing doses in the country and shipping them to Europe.
Niger: Gunmen killed thirty-seven civilians (Reuters), including fourteen children, in an attack on a village in the southwestern Tillaberi Region. According to Human Rights Watch, armed groups have killed more than four hundred civilians in Tillaberi and the neighboring Tahoua Region this year.
