Truckers: Sub-Saharan Africa and Cargo Traffic

truckers: While hundreds of truckers have tested positive for the virus in recent weeks, the drivers say they are being stigmatized and treated like criminals, being detained by governments and slowing cargo traffic to a crawl, according to CTV. That has created a challenge for governments in much of sub-Saharan Africa, where many borders remain closed by the pandemic, on how to strike a balance between contagion and commerce. But Africa's long-distance truckers say they are increasingly being accused of carrying something else the coronavirus. Countries are struggling to reach common ground. Complete coverage at newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox Rajab and his load of liquefied gas spent three days at the Kenya-Tanzania border, where the line of trucks waiting to be cleared stretched into the distance and wound around the lush hills overlooking the crossing at Namanga. When I entered Tanzania, in every town that I would drive through, they would call me, 'You, corona, get away from here with your corona! ' said Abdulkarim Rajab, a burly Kenyan who has been driving trucks for 17 years and recalls when drivers were being accused of spreading HIV during that outbreak. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.