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Flooding: Brace for impact
IN Nigeria, the rainy season often brings bad news. As the rains grow heavier and more frequent, both the government and citizens are gripped by the fear of flooding. Numerous areas have already ...
In the north of Mozambique, Al-Shabaab have waged a brutal insurgency since 2017, leading to beheadings, rapes, and burned villages, even as recent as reports dated 2024. The fight over liquified ...
Will South Africa's budget priorities shift to address the urgent climate crisis? Explore the implications of Minister Dion ...
Nigeria’s former president, Muhammadu Buhari, who led Nigeria twice as a military head of state and a democratic president has died aged 82. The announcement came from the press secretary ...
The U.N.'s food agency says it will suspend various food and nutritional assistance in vulnerable countries across West and ...
A look at one Texas city’s weather warning system, as questions swirl about the timing of flash flood warnings.
The flooding occurred after the nearby Guadalupe River broke its banks after torrential rain fell in the central Texas area ...
A record summer downpour in China’s central province of Hubei dumped more than a month’s worth of rain in just 12 hours on the city of Xianfeng, prompting authorities on Tuesday to move 18,000 ...
Authorities say the death toll from severe floods that inundated parts of South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape province two weeks ago has risen to 101, with a 12-month-old baby the youngest fatality ...
Authorities say the death toll from severe floods that inundated parts of South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape province two weeks ago has risen to 101, with a 12-month-old baby the youngest fatality.