The IMF has lowered its real GDP growth forecast for the Middle East and North Africa in 2023.
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An environmental court in Kenya has stopped the government from lifting a more than five-year ban on logging.
Authorities are urging citizens to exercise caution by avoiding alcohol and caffeine, as these beverages can lead to dehydration in such extreme conditions.
The International Monetary Fund says that Sudan's GDP will contract by more than 18% in 2023 due to the war which has raged in the country since April this year.
"There are a few free electrons who support France and Australia, but I don't know any who are behind the South African Springboks," Moodaley says of his extended family, based in Cape Town .
South African authorities in Western Cape province are currently in pursuit of six prisoners who managed to break free from the confines of a magistrate's court holding cell.
Activists and agricultural pressure groups had denounced the authorities' 2022 decision, and called for the ban to be "reinstated". Kenya is experiencing a drought of unprecedented intensity for 40 years.
Nigeria is grappling with a devastating diphtheria outbreak that has claimed the lives of more than 600 people, primarily children, since its onset in December 2022. This recent outbreak surpasses the 2011 incident, which reported a mere 98 cases.
Arms are being distributed to Israelis living near the Lebanese border in the north of the country as it faces a possible new front in the ongoing war.
France and the Springboks last met in Marseille last November, with the French battling to a narrow 30-26 win.
In their only World Cup meeting, in the 1995 semi-finals, France lost to the Springboks 19-15.
