Lockdowns: Saving lives, but ruining livelihoods in Africa
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LAGOS/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - In a dark ground-floor room in Lagos, dressmaker Kemi Adepoju gazes at a pile of dresses she has made but which cannot be collected due to the lockdown in force to slow the spread of the new coronavirus."This lockdown came upon us suddenly. I used all my money to buy fabric. If I had known, I would have ... used it to buy food instead," said the mother-of-two, who runs her business from a room she rents in the Iwaya suburb of Nigeria's largest city.Like millions in..