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Ali Baba and the forty thieves: A lesson for us

Kenya received 100,000 masks from the Jack Ma Foundation. The masks, together with 20,000 test kits and 1,000 protective gear landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on March 24, 2020. [Edward Kiplimo,Standard]

Chinese billionaire and philanthropist Jack Ma’s Alibaba is the world’s biggest online commerce company. Its main sites have hundreds of millions of users and host millions of merchants and businesses.

Ma, responding to Covid-19, has donated medical equipment to several countries to fight this scourge.

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