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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.
Cape Town floods displace thousands, devastate informal settlements. Aid is distributed, but recovery is slow amid blocked ...
Heavy rains and flooding have killed at least 341 people in South Africa’s eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, and more rainstorms are forecast.
Officials say death toll expected to rise as authorities launch search operation in the country’s Eastern Cape province.
Floods across 14 central and West African nations have affected at least 4 million people — rendering many of them homeless — killed about 1,000 and are devastating crops in a region that’s ...
PRETORIA, South Africa -- The South African National Defense Force has been called up to assist in the clean-up operations on the country’s flood-ravaged east coast. At least 443 people have ...
The floods have so far killed at least 96 people in the country, including children, according to Farhan Jimale, the government spokesman. “We were asleep when the water poured into our home ...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The death toll in floods in South Africa's Eastern Cape province has risen to 86, the police minister said Saturday as rescuers continued to retrieve bodies from the ...
Floods in Africa that are displacing millions of people from Guinea on the west coast to the Central African Republic more than 2,000 miles to the east are prompting warnings of dam bursts and ...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The death toll in floods in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province has risen to 57, a government minister visiting the scene of the disaster said Thursday.