Features Editors: Hong Kong: Liz Thomas +852 2829 6211 Paris: Kate Millar +33 1 4041 4636 We are offering the following item: + African researchers blaze a trail in virus fight Health-virus-Nigeria,WRAP EDE, Nigeria "Strong people don't put others down -- they lift them up." So says the discreet sign at the entrance to one of the most remarkable research facilities in Africa. Run by a Cameroon-raised, Harvard-trained molecular biologist, the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) has been at the forefront in the fight of killer diseases such as Ebola, Lassa fever -- and now COVID-19. 1,300 words by Sophie Bouillon. Pictures by Pius Ekpei. Video by Pierre Favennec afp