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Six people have died and one remains unaccounted for after severe flash floods hit the Eastern Cape over the weekend.
EASTERN CAPE FLOODS

Six people dead and hundreds evacuated in Eastern Cape floods

Search-and-rescue operations continued overnight after 70 people were saved from the floods

  • Umamah Bakharia
2 min read
Kenya’s President William Ruto. (Photo by Kristy Sparow/Getty Images for Global Citizen)
AFRICA CLIMATE SUMMIT

William Ruto: Africa should stop being a victim and instead use its potential

Kenya’s president says Africa’s renewable resources place the continent at an advantage because of its favourable weather

  • Mandisa Makgakga
4 min read
Residents, community organisations and civil society groups across Johannesburg have united to demand urgent action to end the city’s deepening water crisis. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
BIODIVERSITY LOSS

SA needs clear law to protect strategic water source areas

Our government must accelerate efforts to formally protect the zones and introduce the necessary amendments in legislation

  • Catherine Horsfield
  • Tatenda Muponde
6 min read
A general view of containers that fell over at a container storage facility following heavy rains and winds in Durban, on April 12, 2022. (Photo by PHILL MAGAKOE / AFP)
ANC

Opposition parties warn Ramaphosa about corruption possibly hurting relief efforts in KZN

Opposition party members pulled no punches as they placed doubt on whether millions in funds which the government will release will reach the intended victims of the flood

  • Lizeka Tandwa
7 min read
Major General Hlongwa (2nd R) General Officer Commanding the Joint Operations Members talks with other members of the operation ahead of a mission from the Search and Rescue Centre at the old Virginia airport following heavy rains, mudslides and rain and winds in Durban, on April 19, 2022. (RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty Images)
BK4 HELICOPTERS

SANDF troops help with KwaZulu-Natal post-flood recovery

Some residents have accused the South African National Defence Force of taking too long to respond with recovery assistance

  • Lyse Comins
3 min read
BOB SCHOLES

A grim future of extreme weather

Unpredictable and unbearable heat waves, floods and rain set to wreak havoc in Africa

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
2019: Lumka Ngxokile’s house in Green Farm was among those visited by the EFF. (Paul Botes/M&G)
DALI MPOFU

EFF wets feet in Port St Johns

Dali Mpofu shows that he can get down and dirty

  • Sarah Smit
2 min read
Floods hit areas of the Eastern Cape, including Port St Johns on the Wild Coast. Photo: Bantu Holomisa/Twitter
CITY OF DURBAN
Video

Flooding in KZN kills five, more rain expected

Victims were either crushed to death by mudslides or drowned in flood waters according to search and rescue units

  • Kiri Rupiah
2 min read
Sierra Leone’s president issued a desperate appeal for help
FLOOD

Sierra Leone appeals for urgent help after deadly floods

Sierra Leone’s president issued a desperate appeal for help, a day after flooding ravaged the country’s capital, killing more than 300 people.

  • Saidu Bah
4 min read
A man carries a food box where people are collecting supplies to be sent to Krymsk for flood victims
FLOOD

Mayor, two officials arrested over Russia flood deaths

A Russian mayor and two other officials have been arrested for failing to issue warnings and evacuate residents during floods that killed 171 people.

  • Sapa Ap
1 min read
ANTHONY EGAN

A sinking feeling

In July 2016 the world is literally sinking.

  • Anthony Egan
2 min read