At least one peacekeeper killed and dozen others wounded in twin suicide attack in Timbuktu, UN mission says. At least one UN peacekeeper has been killed and a dozen others wounded in a twin suicide attack on a base in the northern Malian town of Timbuktu, the UN mission said. Fighters also fired dozens of […]
Vuyo Ndata had nearly given up hope of going to university – but largely thanks to protests by South African students over high tuition fees – he is now a second-year undergraduate in Johannesburg at the age of 30. His fees are being paid for by the government, which was prompted to deliver on a […]
Serious flooding raged on Sunday in parts of northern Mozambique hit by Cyclone Kenneth three days ago. The government urged people to immediately seek higher ground. Hundreds of thousands of people were at risk with more rain forecast for days ahead. “Help us, we are losing everything,” residents in the region’s main city, Pemba, shouted […]
Rescuers are trying to reach remote villages in Mozambique where a powerful cyclone caused widespread devastation. There are fears thousands of people may be trapped as heavy rain and high winds risk more flooding and landslides. Cyclone Kenneth struck on Thursday with winds of 220km/h (140mph), barely a month after Cyclone Idai killed more than […]
JOHANNESBURG (REUTERS) – Homes were destroyed and some areas were cut off and without power in Mozambique on Friday (April 26) after Cyclone Kenneth made landfall, the second major storm to hit the country in six weeks. The category four storm battered northern parts of the country with winds gusting up to 280 km per […]
Cyclone Idai, which struck the coastline of Mozambique on 14 March, has caused devastation and heavy loss of life. The UN says 1.7 million people in Mozambique lived in the path of the cyclone, with a further 920,000 people affected in Malawi and many thousands more in Zimbabwe. So how common is extreme weather in […]
CAPE TOWN — Flooding in eastern South Africa has killed at least 60 people, the authorities said on Wednesday, after torrential rains collapsed buildings, burst rivers and ripped sinkholes in roads. Thousands more people were displaced, according to Lennox Mabaso, a government spokesman in KwaZulu-Natal Province, where the worst flooding occurred. Officials were providing urgent […]
MAPUTO (REUTERS) – Another tropical cyclone is expected to make landfall on Mozambique’s coast on Thursday (April 25), just over a month after a more powerful storm struck the Mozambican port city of Beira further south and killed hundreds of people. Weather forecasters say Cyclone Kenneth will bring heavy rainfall, strong winds and waves of […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan — As protesters massed at the gates of Sudan’s military headquarters, calling for the ouster of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the country’s Air Force chief stepped outside to address them. Lt. Gen. Salah Abdelkhalig, a hard-bitten veteran of Sudan’s many wars, assured the protesters they had nothing to fear from the military. “This […]
In our series of letters from Africa, Nigerian novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani visits an influential traditional ruler who often swaps his royal garb for boots and a hoe in a bid to encourage his subjects to take up farming. When the Emir of Keffi in Nasarawa state in north-central Nigeria died in 2015, his 52-year-old […]