The decision is a crucial step in getting shots to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the center of the outbreak.

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More than 50 African leaders have gathered in Beijing for a summit aimed at projecting the influence of China’s leader, Xi Jinping, in the developing world.

Decades of progress in lifting up the world’s poorest is imperiled now that Western countries are turning increasingly protectionist.

Crushing obligations to foreign creditors that have few precedents have sapped numerous African nations of growth and stoked social instability.