Nigeria’s Grave Diggers Bury Secret COVID Victims Every Day

KANO, Nigeria—Inside the Abbatuwa cemetery where Abu Musa has dug graves for many years, the smell of damp earth fills the dry air. There are tons of mud heaped to the left and right, in front of us and behind us, piled up to cover the dead as they arrive. But the cemetery is congested. At one end elderly men are digging shallow pits on top of old graves to await new occupants, including fellow grave diggers who have died in recent days. For…