Chad: Security and democracy in the balance

Our correspondent Mayeni Jones reports from Chad's capital N'djamena, where a month since the killing of late President Idriss Déby Itno, Chadians ask for an end to military rule and a return to democratic elections. But it's a difficult balance exercise between security and democracy;

Africa has so far registered some of the lowest numbers of Covid-19 infections globally. But a study from the prominent scientific paper The Lancet, has found that those who do get critically ill from the virus are more likely to die from it. We discuss the findings with the Chief Research Scientist and founding Director of the Makerere University Lung Institute, Dr Bruce Kirenga;

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(Photo: children play in a street in the southern district of the Chadian capital of N'Djamena. Credit: XAUME OLLEROS/AFP via Getty Images)