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1. IntroductionTropical cyclone Idai, which made landfall in March 2019 near the port city of Beira in Mozambique was the most severe natural disaster to affect southern Africa in over three decades, causing catastrophic damages in towns and rural area...
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January 17, 2020 Web Desk
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On 15 December, a young man from Palestine, previously accommodated in Sid Transit Centre (TC) with his family, tragically perished when electrocuted by high voltage power lines while attempting to climb onto a train carriage. On 23 December, two fami...
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January 16, 2020 Web Desk
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It is early Saturday morning and Planeta Hatuleke, a small scale farmer of Pemba District in Southern Zambia, awakens to the comforting sound of rainfall. As the locals say, the heavens have opened and it is raining heavily after a prolonged dry spell....
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January 15, 2020 Web Desk
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A Paris corruption trial against a once-powerful figure in world sports opened Monday but was quickly adjourned. The trial against 86-year-old Lamine Diack, the Senegalese former head of World Athletics' governing body, has been adjourned until June, ...
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January 13, 2020 Web Desk
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Nelia Bvuma hasn't had a proper meal for the past two years. The mother-of-two from Makoni, Zimbabwe has been surviving on seasonal wild fruits due to severe food shortages caused by years of drought.Once a prime agricultural region, crops have been fa...
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January 12, 2020 Web Desk
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