COVID-19 testing
in Madagascar
in March 2020.
Picture: WORLD
BANK/HENITSOA
RAFALIA/FLICKR
As a Kenyan business leader, it has been harrowing to see Africa lose so many of its hard-earned economic gains to COV- ID-19. The pandemic has pushed sub-Saharan Africa as a region into its first recession in 25 years, and the World Bank estimates that some 40 million people could be forced into poverty.
This in turn has challenged Africa’s social fabric and led to social and political protests.
I’ve watched in sorrow as protests erupted in South Africa, Guinea, Somalia and Senegal as people found their livelihoods threatened by lockdowns. People are being pushed to the limit.
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