Mon 29 Apr 2019: MAPUTO (Reuters) – The United Nations will grant Mozambique and the Comoros Islands $13 million in emergency funds to help provide food and water and repair damage to infrastructure, the organization said late on Sunday, after the second cyclone in a month slammed into the region. Cyclone Kenneth crashed into the […]
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Sun 28 Apr 2019: Video Courtesy: SABC NEWS Humanitarian organisation the Gift of the Givers believes that SA photographer Shiraaz Mohamed, who was captured in Syria more than two years ago‚ is still alive. “It has taken two years and three months but finally, Gift of the Givers has received proof of life for journalist […]
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Sun 28 Apr 2019: NGO Gift of the Givers says it has received video evidence that South African photojournalist Shiraz Mahomed is alive in Syria. Shiraz was abducted near the Syrian border with Turkey on the 10 January 2017 while on a humanitarian trip with the Gift of the Givers. The organization says it […]
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Sun 28 Apr 2019: Cyclone Kenneth has flattened entire villages in northern Mozambique, killing five people Assane Maulana rescues his belongings with his family in front of his home and shop in Macomia, following Cyclone Kenneth on April 28, 2019. Thousands of people in remote areas of storm-lashed Mozambique were homeless and bracing for imminent […]
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Sat 27 Apr 2019: Trophy hunters have boasted about killing a rare large-tusked elephant in a national park in Zimbabwe, reportedly the second time the hunter has killed one of the rare elephants. The massive elephant bull was killed by trophy hunters in Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe. The news was announced on JWK Safaris Facebook […]
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Sat 27 Apr 2019: JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Mozambican officials on Saturday urged those living near two rivers in the country’s north to move to higher ground, as Cyclone Kenneth dumped heavy rains and caused some flooding. The cyclone killed five people and flattened homes around Mozambique’s northern coast before moving inland and pounding the province […]
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Sat 27 Apr 2019: The second-largest diamond in history has been discovered in the southern African country of Botswana, a mining company said on Friday, but the gem is unlikely to fetch a record prize. Canadian-based mine owners Lucara Diamond said the unbroken 1,758-carat stone was unearthed through the state-of-the-art XRT circuit technology commissioned in […]
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Sat 27 Apr 2019: Two senior employees of the oil company Shell have been kidnapped and their police escorts killed in Nigeria’s restive Delta region, police said. The attack took place as the workers were returning from a business trip on Thursday on a road in Rivers state. Gunmen killed the guards, one of whom […]
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Fri 26 Apr 2019: South African middle distance runner Caster Semenya has given the perfect response to the IAAF’s testosterone limit rule by winning the women’s 5000m at the national championships, an event not covered by the proposed regulation. The two-time 800m Olympic champion stormed to victory at the South African Athletics Championships, raising questions […]
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Fri 26 Apr 2019: JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Homes were destroyed and some areas were cut off and without power in Mozambique on Friday 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 […]
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