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Did Vaccine Diplomacy Sway Africa’s Ukraine Vote?

by Cobus van Staden

Amid the global discussion about why 35 Global South countries avoided censuring Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at the United Nations, Michael Bociurkiw, a senior non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council, felt the need to tweet.

He pointed out that some of the five countries that abstained, have received Chinese or Russian vaccines. But how true is his argument that this is vaccine diplomacy at work?

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