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Humanitarian group MSF calls for support for refugees in Kenya affected by cholera crisis
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Hundreds of refugees in Kenya’s Dadaab camps have been affected by a cholera outbreak as the population in the facilities grows rapidly, a humanitarian charity said Tuesday. Doctors Without Borders, known by French acronym MSF, said that 2,786 refugees have...
Cholera kills 17 in South Africa and a further 9 in neighboring Zimbabwe
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At least 17 people have died in a cholera outbreak in the Hammanskraal township outside South Africa's capital, Pretoria, authorities said Wednesday. The toll has risen from an initial 10 fatalities reported by local health authorities earlier this week. ...
Mozambique works to contain cholera outbreak after cyclone
QUELIMANE, Mozambique (AP) — Weeks after massive Cyclone Freddy hit Mozambique for a second time, the still-flooded country is facing a spiraling cholera outbreak that threatens to add to the devastation. There were over 19,000 confirmed cases of cholera across eight of...
'Appalling': Southern Africa counts toll of Cyclone Freddy
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The death toll from Tropical Cyclone Freddy, which ravaged Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique over the past two months, now stands at more than 600 people, the World Health Organization said Thursday. Aid agencies are scrambling to meet the soaring...
UN: Many African children at risk from lack of clean water
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — In Nigeria's teeming city of Lagos, children in the Makoko area swim and play in filthy water surrounded by garbage. In Ivory Coast's largest city, Abidjan, thousands of families must fetch water from streams for their daily needs. In...
A week on, brutal Cyclone Freddy still taxes southern Africa
Over a week after Cyclone Freddy's second and more devastating landfall in Malawi and Mozambique and nearly a month since it battered Madagascar, the effects are still being felt as locals, officials and aid workers continue to uncover the full extent of the cyclone's destruction. In...
Death toll rises, locals pick up pieces after Cyclone Freddy
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Authorities are still getting to grips with the scale of Cyclone Freddy's destruction in Malawi and Mozambique since late Saturday, with over 370 people confirmed dead, several hundreds still missing and tens of thousands displaced. On Friday, Malawi...
After Cyclone Freddy, flood risk lingers for southern Africa
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — After four days of destructive wind and rain, local communities and relief workers are now confronting the aftermath of Cyclone Freddy which has killed more than 250 people and displaced tens of thousands of others across Malawi and Mozambique and may still cause further...
Cyclone Freddy wanes after battering Malawi, Mozambique
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Cyclone Freddy has dissipated after killing hundreds of people and displacing thousands in Mozambique and Malawi since late last week, although flooding remains a threat in both countries, a regional monitoring center said late Wednesday. The cyclone has...
Iraqi PM promises action to tackle crippling climate change
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's prime minister Sunday promised sweeping measures to tackle climate change — which has affected millions across the country — including plans to meet a third of the country's electricity demands using renewable energy. Climate change for years has...
