To face the Covid-19 pandemic, the Burundian government has initiated the massive voluntary screening campaign and the launch of a new blue soap "Ubururu" at half price. This has significantly impacted the production and sales activities of many community cooperatives such as that of the young Baseka Vianney Saïdi, Managing Director of UJEAD- Akeza Company (Union des Jeunes Engagés pour l’Auto-Développement) which manufactures soap in Mugoboka neighbourhood on the outskirts of Bujumbura city, he tells us.

It is very early in the morning under a light mist that breaks the heat of the sun of the great dry season that we are going to find Baseka who is already waiting for us in the modest soap processing room of his association. When we arrived, the small, almost empty shelves caught our eyes, "We barely produce any more because we have more customers who prefer the new blue soap at a low price," tells the man in his thirties.

Maasai market is one of the busiest markets in Nairobi city during weekends being an African merchandise market. It attracts tourists from different countries who come to experience the Maasai culture and art, but due to the pandemic, traders have experienced slow growth of business due to the banning of International and local passenger flights.

The market is deserted and the traders are in survival mode. Most of the traders live outside the capital city of Nairobi, that means they have to commute from different nearby towns to Nairobi to sell their merchandise. Due to distance, they incur huge transport costs and they have also had to pay for the business space. With the current situation they have been really affected negatively.

ABUJA, "Police, police" a 12 year old boy ran down the road screaming, towards a woman selling roasted fish and chips beside a small makeshift bar in Kubwa, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory in Nigeria.

Quickly the boy and his older sister of about 15 assist their mother carry the small basin with hot coal on which three fishes where roasting, they take it to the back, carry away the table that the fish was being roasted on and stood back innocently watching the road eagerly for the police to drive by. The makeshift beer parlour was also quickly closed while the few customers that had been drinking and chatting with friends dispersed to nearby building.

The decline of Zimbabwe's economy over the past twenty years has forced many into the informal sector with the latest survey indicating that seventy six percent of the population irks out a living outside of the formal economy.

Once known as the bread basket in the region, the economic shocks experienced in the country have resulted in industries shutting up and many losing jobs despite the universities and colleges continuing to churn out graduates.

The impact of Covid-19 can be seen in the lives of every citizen within the Democratic Republic of Congo, and all activities have had to be adjusted during the pandemic.

Schools, churches, restaurants, bars, stores, universities and flights have essentially had to stand still, after the presidential decree of a state of emergency within the whole country. According to Jeune Afrique, President Felix Antoine Tshisekedi's order banned all flights from Kinshasa to provinces and from provinces to Kinshasa, in order to allow for the city’s lockdown.