Increasingly Desperate Cries for Help From Africans Left Behind in China

Kenya joins Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco in evacuating its citizens from the epicenter of the Novel Coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, but hundreds of other Africans, mostly students, are still there amid deteriorating conditions.

Forced to remain inside their apartments, the students face an increasingly dire situation as food supplies run low and prices are rising quickly due to the lockdown.

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