For widows in Africa, COVID-19 stole husbands, homes, future

Vanessa Emedy looks at photographs of her late husband Godefroid Kamana in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Thursday March 31, 2022. The night of his burial, extended family members came to the family home where Vanessa had just begun her period of mourning. "They didn't wait the 40 days," she lamented. "I was stripped of everything, of all my possessions." (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)