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Community health volunteer Everlyne Akinyi Omondi talks to residents about the dangers of COVID-19 in Kawangware informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya on May 27, 2020. | THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Nita Bhalla

Community health volunteer Everlyne Akinyi Omondi talks to residents about the dangers of COVID-19 in Kawangware informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya on May 27, 2020. | THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Nita Bhalla

Africa's Unsung Army of Women Wage War on COVID-19

Community health workers are the foot soldiers – mostly female – who are known in the neighbourhood and trusted to save lives.

ARCHIVE PHOTO: Boys play soccer in the streets of the Mercato market in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 14, 2015. | REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

ARCHIVE PHOTO: Boys play soccer in the streets of the Mercato market in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 14, 2015. | REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Ethiopia Moves Children from Streets to Shelters to Slow Coronavirus

Thousands of street children in Addis Ababa are being moved to shelters as COVID-19 cases soar in the east African nation.

ARCHIVE PHOTO: Ethiopian migrants sit up as they wake up after sleeping out in the open near a transit centre where they wait to be repatriated, in the western Yemeni town of Haradh, on the border with Saudi Arabia, May 21, 2013. | REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

ARCHIVE PHOTO: Ethiopian migrants sit up as they wake up after sleeping out in the open near a transit centre where they wait to be repatriated, in the western Yemeni town of Haradh, on the border with Saudi Arabia, May 21, 2013. | REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Thousands of Ethiopian Migrants Quarantined in Universities Wait to Go Home

Thousands of Ethiopian migrants deported from the Middle East are being quarantined in universities and schools.