On the phone, AS Elijah's voice is sluggish. For this man from Lagos, as for all his neighbors, the month of confinement was an “ immense ordeal ”, from which he emerged “ exhausted” . The economic capital of the African giant, normally vibrating to excess, was suddenly frozen in late March. " You could even hear the birds, " he says, something insane in this city saturated by decibels. To curb the spread of the virus, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered, at the end of March, complete containment of the city. It lasted a month. " It was terrible, because people were absolutely not prepared for it ."
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Certainly in Yaba, the upscale neighborhood where he resides, the impact has been only limited. But in the popular neighborhoods where his relatives live, the inhabitants only have unstable odd jobs, and live from day to day. Without provisions or savings, they were quickly pushed to the limit. " There was even less to eat as prices rose considerably ." With the NGO where he works
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