SENEGAL has taken delivery of its first COVID-19 vaccines, after paying for 200 000 doses from China's Sinopharm. Like other African countries that have struggled to procure vaccines, Senegal is still waiting for disbursements through African Union and World Health Organization-backed (WHO) programmes. In the meantime, some have turned to purchases or donations from China. Despite a relatively late start compared to Western producers, China is ramping up efforts to distribute its vaccines in Africa and elsewhere, some as direct aid. President Macky Sall will be at Dakar's airport for the arrival of the first doses from China in the…