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South Africa’s jailed ex-president Jacob Zuma, who early this month was moved from prison to a health facility, has undergone surgery and will stay in hospital for further procedures, the government said Sunday. “Mr. Zuma underwent a surgical procedure on Saturday, 14 August 2021, with other procedures scheduled for the coming days,” the correctional services department announced in a statement,… Read More

Last updated: 3 hours ago A mob set ablaze a property near Tripoli on Sunday thought to belong to the owner of a warehouse which exploded earlier in the day in northern Lebanon, killing 20 people. The large group gathered and threw missiles at the house, which caught fire and had black smoke pouring from its windows, before security forces… Read More

Last updated: 45 minutes ago The death toll from a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Haiti soared on Sunday as rescuers raced to find survivors amid the rubble ahead of a potential deluge from an approaching tropical storm. Saturday’s earthquake left at least 724 dead and 2,800 injured in the Caribbean island nation, with thousands more displaced from their destroyed or… Read More

Last updated: 54 minutes ago Torrential rain triggered a mudslide and more floods across Japan on Sunday, leaving three people presumed dead and forcing the evacuation of dozens of residents. A mudslide early Sunday hit a house in Okaya City in the central Japanese prefecture of Nagano, burying eight residents. Three of the people were presumed dead when rescue workers… Read More

Algerian firefighters were still struggling Sunday to put out 19 blazes in the north of the country, where 90 people were killed in wildfires this week. A statement from the emergency services said its teams were trying to extinguish 19 fires in 10 provinces. It said six blazes were still raging in Bejaia, three in El Tarf and two in… Read More

Zambia’s main opposition candidate was leading Saturday in partial results for a tight presidential election while incumbent leader Edgar Lungu cried foul. Following a high turnout in Thursday’s vote, Hakainde Hichilema, 59, was ahead of Lungu, 64, in about 20 percent of the constituencies announced so far, even as EU observers said campaign conditions had been “unequal” and favoured the… Read More

Ghana welcomed survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre Viola Ford Fletcher who is 107 years old and her brother Hughes Van Ellis, 100 years old. The two are the last known living survivors of the 1921 racist massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This is the first time they step on African soil for a tour in Ghana. The visit is… Read More

The governor of Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province said Thursday that the city of Mocimboa da Praia was safe for people to return. It was retaken from Islamist insurgents by a joint force of Rwandan and government forces on Sunday. “With this force, which has been done to put them out of this city, so people of course they have… Read More

Thousands of hectares of restored Mangroves are changing the lives of local fishing communities in Senegal and helping them tackle climate change. Mangroves are essential for preventing soil erosion, holding back rising sea levels and promoting marine ecosystems. Africa has lost nearly 500,000 hectares of its mangroves due to drought, deforestation and construction in the last 25 years, according to… Read More

More tension is rising between DR Congo and India following the death of a Congolese student in the hand of Indian police last week. Indian businesses and vehicles were apparently torched in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital on Thursday, according to the police, further igniting the fallout. A dozen of Indian businesses were looted in Kinshasa following the death… Read More