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This photo taken Saturday, June 13, 2020 shows the aftermath of an attack by Islamic extremists in Monguno, northeastern Nigeria. Three attacks by Islamic extremists, including an assault on Monguno, a military garrison town, killed more than 40 people in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state. (UNDSS via OCHA, via AP)

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FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2020, file photo, a man wearing a face mask walks at the Yaba Mainland hospital, in Lagos, where an Italian citizen who entered Nigeria from Milan became the first case of the new coronavirus to be treated in Nigeria. A global &quot;brain drain&quot; of medical professionals to richer countries has left developing nations without tens of thousands of highly skilled workers. (AP Photo/ Sunday Alamba, File)

Medical workers far from struggling homelands yearn to help

A boy wearing a face mask carries a small bowl of &quot;githeri&quot;, or mixed beans and maize, for him to eat as he walks past an informational mural warning people about the risk of the new coronavirus, painted by graffiti artists from the Mathare Roots youth group, in the Mathare slum, or informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, April 18, 2020. Africa now has more than 1,000 deaths from COVID-19, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday, with 52 of the continent's 54 countries having reported cases. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Africa deaths above 1,000, including Nigerian chief of staff

This Sept. 13, 2019 photo provided by the family shows Adebambo Alli, left, Robin Gallite and their adopted daughter, Adenike-Rae, at the Lekki Conservation Center, a natural reserve protecting the wetlands of the Lekki peninsula in Nigeria. Stranded in Nigeria for months, the couple had a rare chance to board a U.S-bound evacuation flight amid the coronavirus outbreak. They refused to fly because Adenike-Rae has yet to receive a U.S. visa and they would have had to leave her behind. (Adebambo Alli via AP)

Americans stuck in Africa trying to bring adopted kids home

Boko Haram kills 92 soldiers in Chad in country’s worst toll

Rev. Father Maurice Kwairanga, center, blesses parishioner during a Mass at St. Charles Catholic Church, in Ngurore, Nigeria, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/ Sunday Alamba) **FILE**

Activists press Trump administration to aid embattled Nigerian Christians

In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020 2020 testing kits are displayed on a worktop in Johannesburg where a workshop was held for delegates from across Africa on laboratory confirmation of COVID-19 in suspected human cases. Across Africa, steps are being taken to prepare for and to reduce the effects of the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

Africa readies for new virus as cases confirmed on continent

In this image taken from video, Margaret Ntale, whose three student daughters are stranded in Wuhan, and Cecilia Oyet, in foreground holding cellphone, whose daughter is a medical student at Wuhan University of Science and Technology, speak by video-call to their children and other Ugandan students who are stranded in Wuhan, from Ntale's house in Kampala, Uganda on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. Parents' fears are growing for the thousands of African students who are thought to be stranded in China's locked-down city of Wuhan amid the virus outbreak, with concerns that students are running out of food and money weeks after other countries evacuated citizens. (AP Photo)

Parents of ‘terrified’ Africans stranded in China want help

A man wearing face mask walks at the Yaba Mainland hospital were the first Nigerian victims of the COVID-19 virus are being treated in Lagos Nigeria Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. Nigeria's health authorities have reported the country's first case of a new coronavirus in Lagos, the first confirmed appearance of the disease in sub-Saharan Africa. (Photo/ Sunday Alamba)

Nigeria confirms 1st case of new virus in sub-Saharan Africa

In this Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020, photo Baptist Pastor Clifford Maung, third from left, recites a prayer as Chin Sai, center, and Myint Myint Swe, right, prepare food following services at the Overseas Burmese Christian Fellowship in Boston. All three are immigrants from Myanmar, also known as Burma. Confusion, sorrow and outrage are rippling across some immigrant communities after the announcement of a Trump administration policy that is expected to all but shut down family-based immigration from four countries, including Myanmar. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

New visa rules set off ‘panic wave’ in immigrant communities

Stampede kills at least 20 at refugee camp in Niger

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In this Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, file photo, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari waves to the crowd during the 58th anniversary celebrations of Nigerian independence, in Abuja, Nigeria. The United States and European Union are expressing concern after Nigeria's president suspended the country's chief justice on Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, three weeks before the presidential election, with the U.S. warning it could "cast a pall" over the vote. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga, File)

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Nigeria has said domestic flights resume on July 8 while Kenya and Rwanda plan to restart flights by Aug. 1.

Africa starts opening airspace even as COVID-19 cases climb →

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