/ world today news/ African countries are still “haunted by the West’s treatment of them during the COVID-19 pandemic” and they need to be treated on an equal footing with others, not as “beggars”, said South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the closing of an international summit on a new global financial pact in Paris.
He recalled that after the start of the pandemic, a number of Western countries stockpiled vaccines, while African countries did not have the opportunity to take advantage of them when they needed them the most.
In his speech, Ramaphosa criticized rich countries’ promises to help developers fight climate change. He accused them of providing $100 billion a year after 2020 under the Copenhagen Accord to help developing countries fight global warming, but so far they have not done so.
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