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China President Xi Jinping Beijing: China's president pledged to offer Africa one billion Covid vaccine doses on Monday, with the continent struggling to acquire enough jabs to immunise against the disease. In a speech made via videolink to a China-Africa summit near Senegal's capital Dakar, President Xi Jinping said his country would donate 600 million doses directly. A further 400 million doses would come from other sources, such as investments in production sites, which are sorely lacking across much of Africa. Xi's promise comes as part of a forum between China and African states with an emphasis on trade and...
