By EDITORIALMore by this AuthorKenya and the rest of Africa feel deeply betrayed by China. The xenophobic wave targeting Africans with demeaning undertones that they are the carriers of the deadly coronavirus is depressing and malicious. At its most desperate moment, Kenya, Africa and the rest of the world mobilised to support China. Kenya sent tonnes of masks to China when that country was deeply in crisis as the plague attacked and claimed lives. When US President Donald Trump went ballistic and accused China of manufacturing the virus, calling it “Chinese virus”, Africa and the rest of the world were sympathetic with China because such remarks were untrue.

Source: Daily Nation April 11, 2020 20:37 UTC