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Boubacar Bocoum, 26, a student from Mali, seats on his bed and chats on his phone at the Fondation 2iE, an engineering school, during lockdown at the university campus to limit the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso April 1, 2020. Picture taken April 1, 2020. Reuters/Anne Mimault - RC2JWF9GA637

Boubacar Bocoum, 26, a student from Mali, seats on his bed and chats on his phone at the Fondation 2iE, an engineering school, during lockdown at the university campus to limit the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso April 1, 2020. Image: Reuters/Anne Mimault

Joakim Reiter
Vodafone Group External Affairs Director, Vodafone
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