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SADC team joins Mozambique flood rescue effort

A regional emergency team has arrived in Mozambique to help deal with the aftermath of severe flooding.

Goma one year on: Entrepreneurs rebuild after M23 takeover

One year later, Gentil still keeps the images of his looted shop, filmed by passersby. Like many entrepreneurs in Goma, he chose to get back on his feet, not to give up, and to resume his activities despite an economy that remains extremely fragile.

Families bid farewell to schoolchildren in South Africa killed in a school bus crash

Dozens of mourners gathered at a sports complex in the South African city of Vereeniging on Sunday to bid farewell to three schoolchildren killed in a school bus crash.

Joint Egyptian-Chinese excavation uncovers ancient sacred lake in Karnak

An Egyptian-Chinese archaeological mission announced in Luxor on Saturday that they have uncovered an ancient "sacred lake" at the Montu Temple precinct in the Karnak Temple Complex in the city renowned for its rich monuments in southern Egypt.

Egypt’s FM welcomes US envoy for talks in Cairo on boosting bilateral cooperation

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel-Aty welcomed U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau to Cairo on Sunday for talks on bolstering the strategic partnership between Egypt and the United States.

Women ‘main victims’ of Sudan crisis as sexual violence used as weapon of war

Women are the main victims of abuse in Sudan's war, facing "the world's worst" sexual violence and other crimes committed with impunity, a rights activist turned social affairs minister for the army-backed government says.

Wife of Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine in hospital after soldiers raid her house

The wife of Ugandan opposition politician Bobi Wine speaks to journalists from her hospital bed in Kampala, describing what she says was an overnight raid on her home by armed men searching for her husband.

Egypt’s El-Sissi again rejects Israeli efforts to transfer Palestinians out of Gaza

President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt reiterated Saturday his country’s rejection of Israeli efforts to transfer Palestinians out of their territories in the Gaza Strip.

Protesters in Johannesburg call on US to release Venezuela’s Maduro

Hundreds of demonstrators marched to the United States Consulate embassy in Johannesburg, South Africa, to hand over a memorandum calling for the release of former president Nicolas Maduro.

More than 640,000 people affected by catastrophic Mozambique floods

Catastrophic flooding across Mozambique has affected more than 640,000 people, authorities say, with more than half of those in Gaza province.