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Poverty

A coronavirus disease patient holds up his hand inside the COVID-19 ICU of Machakos Level 5 Hospital, in Machakos, Kenya October 28, 2020.

Ill-Equipped to Heal

by Luqman Mushila Hodgkinson

A personal story of COVID-19 in Kenya

Urbanization

A man coughs as children walk past roadside, during the coronavirus pandemic in Nairobi, Kenya April 19, 2020. This is a powerful image of two children looking at a man who is coughing into his had with his head turned. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Coronavirus in East Africa

by Moses Tetui

Disease-induced divisions and challenges to regional blocs are set to deepen in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic