 Senegal could begin producing COVID-19 vaccines next year under an agreement with Belgium's UNIVERSALS aimed at boosting Africa's drug manufacturing ambitions. As world countries began to reopen after securing vaccine supplies early, African nations are still struggling to occupy or to acquire shots. On the continent of 1.3 billion, only about 7 million have been fully vaccinated. The collaboration highlights the opportunities created by a global push to channel money and technology towards production on the continent that makes only 1% of the vaccines it requires. A biotech firm UNIVERSALS announced the signing of a letter of intent for the collaboration with the Institute Pasteur in Senegal's capital Dakar in April. Armed men have killed around 100 people in an attack on the village in the north of Burkina President Raj Kapoor says the attack took place during the overnight raid on Solhan, where homes and the market were also burnt. No group has said it was behind the violence. But Islamist attacks are increasingly common in the country, especially in regions bordering Niger and Mali. President Qabari has declared three days of national mourning. In outside of Africa, millions of Mexican voters are going to pause today to elect governors, mayors and congressional, amid threats or violence by groups that do not recognize the elections. Authorities deployed soldiers and police in the town of Nahodzen in the northeastern state of Michoacan after political parties has owned the indigenous communal council and demanded the installation of polling stations on June the 6th. The indigenous communal council of Nahodzen is a community government in the state of Michoacan, formed in 2015 after ignoring the elected municipal authorities. The indigenous community claims to be the local authority and threatens to boycott the elections. Now Sunday's election, the largest in Mexico's history, has also been one of the most violent campaigns with 90 murders and 690 tree aggressions against politicians and candidates.