US President Joe Biden (left) talks with France's President Emmanuel Macron during a plenary session at the G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall on June 13, 2021.
The G7 summit promised a lot for Africa. The host, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, pledged to ‘vaccinate the world’ from Covid-19 this year and craft a ‘green Marshall Plan’ to tackle the climate crisis. But Africans will be disappointed with the weak, vague and half-hearted outcome; it will end in many deaths in Africa.
More than 100 former presidents and prime ministers had written to the G7 to bankroll at least two thirds of the $66 billion (Sh7.1 trillion) needed for Covid vaccines by low-income countries. But instead of the $44 billion, they offered a measly $7 billion.
