allAfrica
[allAfrica] COP11 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) was supposed to be a routine gathering -- another closed-door meeting where small expert groups draft decisions, which are later rubber-stamped by member states. Instead, it became something far more significant: a moment of awakening, resistance, and reassertion of sovereignty, especially from African nations that have long been expected to sit quietly at the margins of global health policy.