NAIROBI: Women and children fell to the ground, bloodied and trampled in a desperate surge for food being handed out in a Nairobi slum, as police ...
NAIROBI: Women and children fell to the ground, bloodied and trampled in a desperate surge for food being handed out in a Nairobi slum, as police fired teargas and men with sticks beat the hungry.
"Locking up people in the slums will be the last option. A lot needs to be done before that," a high-ranking security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.The coronavirus arrived late in Africa, but is slowly taking hold with more than 15,000 cases and 800 deaths across the continent. South Africa is the biggest economy on the continent to completely confine its citizens, while Nigeria imposed lockdowns on Lagos - the continent's largest city - and its capital Abuja, which on Monday were extended for another two weeks.
Like Kenya, Benin has cordoned off key cities - preventing movement in and out - while the capitals of Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Niger are also cut off. Experts agree that for the different levels of confinement to work in Africa, significant state support is needed - a challenge in a continent where many countries are already heavily reliant on donor aid.
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