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Salman Ravi was interviewing migrant workers in a Facebook live for 大象传媒 Hindi last week. India's rapid lockdown left hundreds of thousands without jobs or income, many left with no choice but to walk the hundreds of kilometres home. While interviewing one family Salman saw the man had no shoes. So he handed over his own. The video鈥檚 been viewed more than 22 million times, but the story didn鈥檛 stop there.

In China, Wuhan-based writer FangFang has enraged many of her fellow citizens with her blog about daily life under lockdown. They accuse her of providing opponents of China with more ammunition. 大象传媒 Chinese editor Howard Zhang explains the background.

And from Somalia how the grounding of international flights has left khat chewers without their favourite stimulant, as the leaf is usually flown in from Kenya. But anti-khat campaigners hope the lockdown proves permanent. Mohamed Harare of 大象传媒 Somali has been following the story.

Arrest of Rwanda鈥檚 most wanted fugitives
Last weekend one of Rwanda鈥檚 most wanted men was arrested in France. Felicien Kabuga is alleged to be the main financier of the ethnic Hutu extremists who slaughtered 800,000 people in the 1994 genocide. Prudent Ngsengiyumva from 大象传媒 Kinyarwanda was following developments over the weekend.

Honeyland
The documentary film Honeyland is set in a small village in North Macedonia, and tells the story of one of Europe's last wild beekeepers. It got two nominations at this year鈥檚 Oscars, a first for the country. Tijana Dusej of 大象传媒 Serbian tells us what makes the film so captivating.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
The head of the World Health Organisation is probably the world's most famous Ethiopian right now. Dr Tedros Adhanom has been in the news almost continuously since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Hana Zeratsyon of 大象传媒 Tigrinya tells us how he's seen back home.