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A healthcare worker holds a vial of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site operated by SOMOS Community Care during the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic in Manhattan in New York City, New York, US, January 29, 2021. Photo :Reuters

African Union to buy up to 110 million Moderna Covid-19 vaccines -officials

Moderna said it was working to make it possible to fill doses of its Covid-19 vaccine in Africa by 2023 and has plans to build a manufacturing plant on the continent

A man displays a vial AstraZeneca's COVISHIELD vaccine as the country receives its first batch of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccines under COVAX scheme, in Accra, Ghana February 24, 2021. Photo: Reuters

African Union wants Covishield approved for EU Covid-19 certificate

Vials with a sticker reading, "Covid-19 / Coronavirus vaccine / Injection only" and a medical syringe are seen in front of a displayed Johnson & Johnson logo in this illustration taken October 31, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

J&J, African Union in deal for up to 400 mln Covid-19 shots

The vaccine allegedly "stimulates broad antibody and T cell functions Photo: Medical Xpress

South Africa sells AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to other African Union member nations

A vial and sryinge are seen in front of a displayed AstraZeneca logo in this illustration taken January 11, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

African Union says benefits outweigh risks of AstraZeneca Covid shot

Members of the Amhara Special Force return to the Dansha Mechanized 5th division Military base after fighting against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), in Danasha, Amhara region near a border with Tigray, Ethiopia November 9, 2020. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo

US calls on African Union to exert pressure over worsening crisis in Ethiopia's Tigray

The two-day summit has taken as its theme "Silencing the Guns", yet AU officials are well aware of their failure to achieve the goal adopted in 2013 of ending "all wars in Africa by 2020"/ AFP Photo

Africa holds ‘silence the guns’ summit as new conflicts grow