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Survivors in shock as Cyclone Freddy toll passes 300

BLANTYRE: The last thing Lukia Akimu remembers is the surge of floodwater that hit her village near Mount Soche earlier this week when Tropical Cyclone Freddy tore through southern Malawi.The next thing she knew, she...

Men work to rescue their relatives, or recover their bodies, who are victims of a landslide which occurred due to heavy rains resulting from cyclone Freddy in Blantyre. — AFP

Crowds rampage, hospital operations hit in S Africa

Looters take away few items left to grab in a vandalised mall in Vosloorus on Wednesday. -- Reuters

Looting, violence spreads in South Africa

A shop owner weeps inside her looted store at the Diepkloof Square area in Soweto, Johannesburg on Tuesday. -- AFP

South Sudan to mark 10th anniversary without fanfare

Residents of Juba in South Sudan celebrate in the streets the birth of their new nation on July 9, 2011. -- AFP

Megaship heads out of Suez after Egypt deal

Journalists on a nearby boat film the Panama-flagged MV 'Ever Given' container ship sailing along Suez Canal on Tuesday. - AFP

Tunisia hospitals struggle with Covid 'tsunami'

A medic attends to patients at a gym that was converted to deal with a surge in new Covid-19 infections in the east-central city of Kairouan. - AFP

12 Indian ministers resign in major reshuffle

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Ethiopia resumes filling Nile dam reservoir, angering Egypt

This photo taken on December 26, 2019, shows a general view of the the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) under construction, near Guba in Ethiopia. - AFP

Sudan urges ceasefire in war-hit Tigray

A woman, who fled the violence in Ethiopia's Tigray region, watches as others bake a bread at May Weyni secondary school, in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia. - AFP

Sisi opens naval base close to border with Libya

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S Africans gather in support of Zuma

Supporters march in the street outside former South African president Jacob Zuma痴 rural home in Nkandla on July 3, 2021. Jacob Zuma on July 2, 2021 mounted a last-ditch legal bid to avoid prison after the country's top court ordered him jailed for failing to appear before graft investigators. In a landmark ruling, the Constitutional Court on June 29, 2021 handed Zuma a 15-month term for contempt after he snubbed a probe into the theft of state assets under his tenure. / AFP / Emmanuel Croset

Ethiopia rebels retake regional capital

Children, who fled the violence in Ethiopia’s, Tigray region, wait in line for breakfast organised by a self-volunteer Mahlet Tadesse, 27, in Mekelle, the capital of Tigray region. — AFP

Africa's first Covid mRNA vaccine soon

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Libyan PM declares coast road open

An excavator removes rubble during a ceremony in marking the reopening of 300 kilometre road between the cities of Misrata and Sirte. — AFP

Ethiopia votes, despite war and famine

Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed casts a ballot at a polling station in Beshasha on Monday. — Reuters

New compensation offer made over Suez Canal blockage

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