Health Diplomacy or Biological Blackmail? Inside Washington’s Demands for African Pathogen Data

The United States shut down USAID, then demanded Africa’s pathogen samples and health data in exchange for aid—with no bioweapons guarantees. Meanwhile, more than 3 decades later, Rwanda remembers Western betrayal during 1994’s Tutsi genocide.

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