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Africa Weekly: South Africa in new lockdown after Covid-19 cases pass 1 million

AFP, 01 Jan 2021
South Africa becomes the first country in Africa to pass one million official coronavirus infections, though the real figure is probably higher. Strict measures to bring down new cases are back: beaches off limits, earlier nighttime curfews, and a ban on alcohol sales. Meanwhile, counting continues after presidential and parliamentary elections in Niger and the Central African Republic, the last one marred by violence and threats by rebel groups.

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