At some point when the Ministry (health) agreed to contract some companies, they made very poor masks and by the time, they discovered, they were of poor quality, they had already distributed and they had, to stop a number of manufacturers
The African Union recently rolled out the Partnership to Accelerate Covid-19 Testing (PACT) (https://bit.ly/2BoT9wh) building on the lessons from past outbreaks and epidemics.