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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. Image: Reuters/Anne Mimault

Joakim Reiter

Vodafone Group External Affairs Director, Vodafone

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