At the Los Angeles Times, "Death toll rises to 72 in South Africa rioting after jailing of ex-president":
And watch: "Looting and rioting break out across South Africa in wake of former President Zuma’s imprisonment."More than half of South Africa’s 60 million people live in poverty, with an unemployment rate of 32%, according to official statistics. The COVID-19 pandemic, with layoffs and an economic downturn, has increased the hunger and desperation that helped propel the protests triggered by Zuma’s arrest into wider rioting.
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