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In China's 'Little Africa,' a struggle to get back to business after lockdown

People eat at a halal restaurant in Guangzhou's Xiaobei neighborhood, nicknamed "little Africa", as it starts to recover from a lockdown in April after the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Guangdong province, China June 17, 2020. REUTERS/David Kirton

Mohammed has spent several weeks sleeping in his cramped trading booth in one of Guangzhou’s export centres after being kicked out of his apartment and forced into quarantine in April, but the Tanzanian trader says he is content to be in China.

As Africans in the Chinese metropolis were targeted that month in a coronavirus clampdown that sparked a diplomatic backlash, Guangzhou’s Xiaobei neighbourhood - known as “Little Africa” - went into lockdown.

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