Vaccine hoarding is dividing nations, says Botswana’s President

Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi said he’s never seen the world as polarized as it is over the issue of access to Covid-19 vaccines.

The actions of rich countries, who have bought more inoculations than they need while much of Africa struggles to secure the doses, should be "condemned in the strongest of terms.” Pharmaceutical companies should also be compelled to share the technology needed to make the vaccines, he said. "I’ve never seen a crisis that divides us so sharply,” Masisi said in an interview Friday in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s commercial capital. This "causes us to reflect deeply and ask ourselves existential questions on the meanings of multilateralism, on the meanings of humanity.”