Coronavirus fears spark urban exodus across Africa

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“We stopped work and accepted the constraints of confinement, but we still have to eat and feed our children.”

Madagascans have joined the exodus in their hundreds in recent days, forming long queues to get away after the authorities declared a lockdown to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus epidemic.

“We don’t really know when we will get there, but we are preparing to spend several nights on the road, sleeping under the stars,” Rakotoarisoa says. The surge has since slowed, but the brightly painted matatu are still in demand even if the official capacity of the vehicles has been cut in half for health reasons.“This city is not safe for us, that is why I am moving to the village” with his wife and two children. “We don’t wan’t to catch corona,” he adds.

“When you look at what other countries are doing, we must expect a total lockdown here. I will not wait for it,” admits lawyer Johnson Makori. “I have closed my office for now and I am going to the village in Kisii.” He says he will not be back before the crisis is over.Gabon, which has declared seven virus cases and one death in the capital Libreville and its surrounds, suspended domestic flights and train services while urging people not to take off for the countryside.

The governor of Kinshasa has ordered a lockdown, telling the capital’s 10 million people to stay at home from Saturday for at least the next four days. President Felix Tshisekedi had already halted flights and river transport between the city and the rest of the country earlier during the week.

 

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