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A man stands between food parcels during the launch of the distribution of food in the courtyard of the community hotel in Yene on April 28, 2020. - Senegal on April 28, 2020, kicked off a massive food distribution operation to help nearly half of its population cope with the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, which is slowing down the economy of this West African country. (Photo by Seyllou / AFP)

Senegal launches huge aid scheme amid coronavirus
Health workers disinfect themselves after taking swabs tests of patients inside a COVID-19 coronavirus ward that houses suspected cases in Pikine Hospital in Dakar on April 23, 2020. - As COVID-19 coronavirus cases slowly increase in Senegal, hospitals are preparing to receive and test suspect cases whilst safely treating their normal patients. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)

Faces from Africa's anti-virus frontlines
A woman sells goods in traffic after the partial lockdown in parts of Ghana to halt the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus was lifted in Accra, Ghana on April 20, 2020. - The streets of Accra buzzed with life following President Nana Akufo-Addo's announcement of the end to a three-week restriction on movement around the capital and second region Kumasi. (Photo by Nipah Dennis / AFP)

Joy or fear? Mixed feelings as Ghana ends lockdown
A volunteer from the Rays of Light NGO carries bread packs for a free distribution in Alexandra, Johannesburg, on April 16, 2020. - NGO's and government bodies try to provide food for the people that are most affected from the national lockdown in South Africa that started on March 27, 2020, in an attempt to halt the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by Luca Sola / AFP)

Africa still needs $44 billion to fight pandemic: World Bank, IMF
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Anger in Africa over coronavirus 'stigma' in China amid concerns
A man searches in a bag for his clearance document at the main gate to Omole Estate, whose occupants were attacked by armed bandits capitalising on the lockdown in Lagos, on April 14, 2020. - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on April 13, 2020, ordered a two-week extension to a lockdown in largest city Lagos, neighbouring Ogun state and capital Abuja, aimed at halting the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)

Unrest fears rise as Lagos extends COVID lockdown
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African community targeted in China virus crackdown
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Burundi shrugs off pandemic, citing 'God's protection'
Workers of Egyptian non-governmental organisation Egyptian Food Bank prepare cartons with foodstuffs to distribute to people who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic crisis, in the Egyptian capital Cairo, on April 05, 2020. - The large Cairo-based charity organisation EFB has been at the forefront of a public relief effort in the most populous Arab country, where one third of the population of over 100 million lives in poverty, surviving on about $1.50 or less a day. virus. Egypt so far has recorded 85 deaths out of 1,322 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 illness. (Photo by Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP)

Virus pandemic deals heavy blow to Egypt working poor
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Committee strips Kuwaiti citizenship of 1,647 individuals
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Municipal Councilmember Aliaa Al-Farsi
Municipal Council environment committee urges urgent reforms for Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh
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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
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Oxford Academy School students pose for a photo with their Kuwait Times copies.
Oxford Academy School students visit Kuwait Times and Kuwait News
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Sri Lanka's President Anura Kumara Dissanayake arrives for the opening ceremony of the country's tenth parliament at the national parliament in Colombo on November 21, 2024. -- AFP
Sri Lanka president makes U-turn on IMF bailout