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Coronavirus outbreak declared a pandemic
Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.
The World Health Organisation has declared Covid-19 a pandemic - so what does this mean for Africa and what changes now?
Also, Uganda's Minister of Health Dr Jane Ruth Acheng speaks of the impact of coronavirus on the economy.
Plus Nigerian returnees share of their experiences, six months on from xenophobic attacks in South Africa.
(Photo: World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaks at a press conference in Geneva in March 2020. Credit: AFP/ Getty Images)
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