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Over a month ago I warned that the coronavirus pandemic is more than a health crisis in Africa (and the rest of the emerging market countries). Last week I posted the first signs of that coming crisis.
It’s here.
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And on top of the pandemic and all its effects, there are still all the other problems that come and go across the continent, including right now a swarm of locusts of biblical proportions:
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