South Africa: Over 200 killed in Easter weekend road crashes

South Africa’s transport minister Fikile Mbalula said Tuesday 189 crashes were recorded over the Easter period, resulting in 235 deaths nationwide.
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West Africa faces worsening food crisis: Experts
Nearly 20 million people face a food crisis in West Africa and the Sahel region as the vast area is torn by conflicts and the coronavirus pandemic, experts warned Thursday.
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Inner Light: The children surviving conflict in DR Congo

Photographer Hugh Kinsella Cunningham has travelled across the north-eastern province of Ituri in the Democratic R

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Dreadlocks saga: Achimota school sued again
Oheneba Kwaku Nkrabea, one of the two Rastafarian students at the centre of the Achimota School admission brouhaha has also sued the school over his rejection.
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Cameroon mourns the passing away of Christian Cardinal Tumi
His death was announced during Saturday morning Prayers by the Archbishop of Douala, Samuel Kleda. The prelate died Friday night breaking Saturday April 3, 2021 in Douala from an illness in a clinic in the economic capital.
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Namibia struggling to protect rhinos amid pandemic
Animal rights activists warned that rhino slaughtering for the illegal trade of their horns could soar again in Namibia as the coronavirus pandemic has halted the travel industry, affecting many farms that rely on tourism.
The ice and snow at the the top of the Rwenzori Mountains, seen here in 2016, are slowly melting
Uganda climate change: The people under threat from a melting glacier
Ronah Masika remembers when she could still see the snowy caps of the Rwenzori mountains, a Unesco World Heritage site on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.