Here's how governments can help mobile phones become a humanitarian lifeline

Aug 13, 2020

Ali, a migrant from Mali, looks at his phone outside a substandard housing in San Isidro, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Nijar, in the southern Spanish region of Almeria, Spain, April 29, 2020. Picture taken April 29, 2020. REUTERS/Juan Medina - RC21FG9PXDQP

Mobile phones can help deliver vital services to people like this migrant from Mali. Image: REUTERS/Juan Medina

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