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Cyclone Idai toll rises as rescue teams fight to reach victims in inland sea
Witnesses told of corpses floating down swollen rivers and aerial footage showed families perched on rooftops and in the upper branches of submerged trees days after Cyclone Idai tore through southern Africa.
- by Peta Thornycroft and Adrian Blomfield
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Extreme weather
'Everyone is doubling, tripling, quadrupling': foreign aid flows to cyclone-hit Africa
The European Union released $5.61 million in emergency aid, and the United Kingdom pledged up to $11.24 million. Neighbouring Tanzania's military airlifted 238 tons of food and medicine.
- by Edith M. Lederer
Human rights
These LGBT refugees came to Kenya seeking freedom. Instead, they've been imprisoned and abused
On February 22, the same day that a Nairobi court postponed a decision on decriminalising homosexuality in the East African country, 20 LGBT refugees who had come to Kenya hoping to escape repression were spending their first full day in jail.
- by Max Bearak
Paris Agreement
Submarine makes rapid ascent in Indian Ocean
The British-led Nekton Mission investigating climate change off the Seychelles initiated the emergency procedure after the pilot smelled smoke.
- by Jerry Harmer and David Keyton
Extreme weather
Cyclone Idai potentially ‘one of the worst’ disasters in the southern hemisphere
Potentially 1.7 million people were in the direct path of the cyclone, the United Nations estimated on Tuesday, and rain is forecast to continue in parts of the region for several days.
- by Alan Yuhas
Extreme weather
'We expect the death toll to increase significantly': Cyclone Idai devastates Mozambique
The number of people killed in Mozambique by powerful storms and floods across southeastern Africa is likely to rise significantly, the Red Cross said on Tuesday.
- by Mfuneko Toyana
Boeing crisis
Investigators see flight angle data similarity with Indonesian plane
Analysis of the cockpit recorder showed its so-called "angle of attack" data was "very, very similar" to the Lion Air jet that came down off Jakarta in October.
- by Maggie Fick and Tim Hepher
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Extreme weather
Over 1000 feared dead after Cyclone Idai slams into Mozambique
Cyclone Idai killed at least 157 people in Zimbabwe and Mozambique as it tore across Southern Africa, officials and state media said on Monday.
- by MacDonald Dzirutwe and Manuel Mucari
Ethiopian airlines crash
Empty coffins as funerals begin for Ethiopian Airlines crash victims
A mass funeral has been held in Addis Ababa for some of the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash. In Kenya, however, closure has been harder to find.
- by Elias Meseret
Extreme weather
Cyclone Idai hits Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, killing dozens
Cyclone Idai has affected more than 1.5 million people in the three southern African countries, according to the UN and government officials.
Boeing crisis
Investigators begin studying Ethiopian jet's voice recorder
Investigators have begun technical work on the cockpit voice recorder from the Boeing 737 Max that crashed in Ethiopia, the French agency for civil aviation safety, said in a tweet on Saturday.