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After the third wave of Covid -19 and the riots last month, the country has introduced a monthly support of 350 rand - or about twenty euros - for the most disadvantaged. Although the usual social assistance paid to 18 million South Africans is not enough to cover all needs, the government is now increasingly considering making this emergency aid sustainable, in the form of a basic income - a kind of living income. project in Africa. as reported from Johannesburg, Claire Bargelès The Ministry of Social Development has…

In Madagascar, we are seeing an increase in the prices of basic necessities. During two weeks, in the markets of the capital, but also in the provinces, the kilo of different rice varieties, a commodity that forms the basis of the Malagasy diet, has increased from 200 to 400 ariary. Oil and sugar prices are also rising. An increase that worries Malagasy households, which have already been hit hard by the economic and social crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. At the Analakely market in the center of the Malagasy…