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  New, larger wave of locusts threatens millions in Africa

  NBC News - By Associated Press

  Billions of the young desert locusts are winging in from breeding grounds in Somalia in search of fresh vegetation springing up with seasonal rains. Weeks before the coronavirus spread through much of the world, parts of Africa were already threatened by another kind of plague, the biggest locust …

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  Congo, weary from Ebola, must also battle the coronavirus

  Associated Press - By CARLEY PETESCH and AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO

  BENI, Congo (AP) — Congo has been battling an Ebola outbreak that has killed thousands of people for more than 18 months, and now it must also face a new scourge: the coronavirus pandemic. Ebola has left those living in the country’s east weary and fearful, and, just as they were preparing to …

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  African Nations, US Decry Racism Against Blacks in China

  U.S. News & World Report - By Associated Press

  African officials are confronting China publicly and in private over racist mistreatment of Africans in the Chinese city of Guangzhou. By CARA ANNA, …

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  In Kenya, Chinese arrivals are targeted by Jehovah’s Witnesses speaking Chinese

  South China Morning Post  - April Zhu

  Earlier this year, An, a young Chinese professional living in Nairobi, heard a knock at the door. She was expec­ting no one. She had moved in a …

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  Nigerian 'torture house': Kaduna school was 'like hellfire'

  bbc.co.uk

  A survivor of the Nigerian "torture house" raided by police has described being there as "living in hellfire". "If you are praying they will beat you. If you are studying they will beat you," Isa Ibrahim, 29, told the BBC. Nearly 500 men and boys were rescued from the building in Kaduna, which was …