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TUNIS: In this photo taken on June 6, 2020, youths participating in an anti-racism solidarity rally reenact the event leading to the death of George Floyd in the US. - AFP

BLM skirts North Africa despite everyday racism
PORT ELIZABETH: Sello Headbush (unseen), the owner of a Funeral Parlor uses the light from his mobile phone during load shedding to check on a heap of discarded personal protective equipment (PPE) left on a stretcher in front of the cold storage room in Port Elizabeth. ‘People were not taking this seriously’ said the owner of the family run business, as numbers in South Africa of COVID-19 related deaths soars. — AFP

Counting burials: African nations scrambling to track coronavirus
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Virus surge sparks S Africa curfew
PRETORIA: Photo shows a stick measuring the depth of a newly dug grave at the Honingnestkrans cemetery, in Pretoria, for victims of the COVID-19. — AFP

Graves dug for COVID-19 victims spook S Africans
A Tunisian man wearing protective gear amid the COVID-19 pandemic looks on as he chats with another on a street in the Kram area of the capital Tunis on May 8, 2020, as authorities begin a gradual sector and region-based process to mitigate lockdown measures. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)

Tunisians get food aid via text messages
RABAT: A woman, covering her mouth, shops at the central market during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the Moroccan capital Rabat. - AFP

Coronavirus 'takes flavor out of Ramadan' in North Africa
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Women hail victory as Sudan moves to ban genital cutting
Motorists queue in a traffic gridlock as commercial activities return at the end of a five-week COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown in Lagos, on May 4, 2020. - In the metropolis of 20 million, where exuberance and poverty live side by side, relief at being able to earn money once again was almost palpable, despite Nigeria's mounting COVID-19 coronavirus toll. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)

'Today is wonderful': Relief in Lagos as lockdown ends
A South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldier commands a man to wear a face mask in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, on May 1, 2020, during a joint patrol by the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD). - South Africa began to gradually loosen its strict COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown on May 1, 2020, after five weeks of restrictions. (Photo by Michele Spatari / AFP)

S Africa's cigarette ban lights up a row
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NEW YORK: Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan's duct-taped banana entitled "Comedian" is on display during a media preview at Sotheby's on Nov 8, 2024. - AFP
Banana taped to wall ‘artwork’ sells for $6.2m