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The reporter who gave away his shoes

The reporter who gave away his shoes live on air.

Salman Ravi was interviewing migrant workers in a Facebook live for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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’s been viewed more than 22 million times, but the story didn’t 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. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Somali has been following the story.

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