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The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.

He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.

South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.

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TOM HANKS' son Chet Hanks has defended his choice to speak in Patois. People criticised...

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A Mpumalanga man has been sentenced to life behind bars for brutally killing his former girlfriend on a bus in front of horrified passengers.

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In support of his new book 'A Promised Land,' the former President of the United States covered a lot of ground.

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The Garden Route has seen a spike in COVID-19 cases and according to the health department, hospitals in the area are taking serious strain.

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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Dec. 3, CMC – The Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Medicinal Cannabis Licensing Authority (BCLA), Dr Shantal Munro-Knight says the Mia Mottley-led administration is moving ahead with plans to develop a...

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By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Powerful winds that pushed wildfires through Southern California, burning several homes and injuring two firefighters, began easing but forecasters warned that the fire danger remained Friday. Santa Ana winds hit 50 mph (80.5 kph) to 85 mph (137 kph) at times throughout the region beginning Wednesday night, and were one reason that the National Weather Service issued red flag warnings of extreme fire danger into the weekend. The weather service said winds would be decreasing through Friday, down to 25 mph (40 kph) to 45 mph into Friday morning. However, the […]

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The transition has only just begun, but already the liberal media are fawning over Joe Biden’s “historic” choices to staff his administration, as he selects “very experienced,” “very diverse”

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The UN chief warned yesterday that the social and economic impact of COVID-19 'is enormous and growing' and said it's foolish to believe a vaccine can undo damage from the global pandemic that will last for years or even decades.

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If it is still too early to tell what the portents are for full resumption of Venezuela’s oil exports following President Donald Trump’s electoral defeat in his bid for a second term in office, Caracas’ return to doing oil business with its key one-time top customers, the Chinese state companies China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and Petro-China, marks an undoubted silver lining in a dark cloud that had long settled over the country’s economy.

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In the drought-hit south of Madagascar, people are forced to fill their bellies with white clay mixed with tamarind to cope with famine. More than a year of no rain is slowing leading locals to the brink of famine. The staple food like cactus fruit cannot be produced because of the drought.

\"If we had something to eat, if our saliva was enough, we would never have eaten that. But it's true that we didn't know that white clay was edible before. We tried to mix it and it worked\", Dame Zafendraza, a charcoal producer said.

In a nearby village of Ankilomarovahetsy, 9 people starved to death in September. Toharano is a housewife. She says she's quite certain that the death of her children was due to the famine.

\"My children didn't eat for three days and then died, because I, their mother, did not manage to feed them. I'm sure it was the famine that killed them. It's not something else, it's not the disease, but famine. I left early in the morning and came back in the evening, and I saw the body of my child with his eyes open\", she said.

Children have particularly struggled to digest the clay and tamarind mixture. According to the World Food Programme (WFP) in the country this causes ''belly swelling''.

Half of the population in the southern region of the Indian Ocean Island, is currently in need of emergency food aid, the UN agency said.

Théodore Mbainaissem is head of the Ambovombe office for the World Food Programme (WFP).

\"People could not go out because of the lockdown. The trucks, the bush taxis that have to commute, were not allowed and people stayed more or less in the villages. Add to that the food insecurity caused by climate change, which has been very severe this year\", he said.

The WFP said about 31 million euros are urgently needed to feed the hungry in southern Madagascar.

Climate Change

A few kilometres away in the town of Beraketa, global charity Action Against Hunger (ACF) has put up a centre in partnership with the WFP.

The centre caters for around 50 severely malnourished children and 100 other patients every week. The children are at risk of death, especially if malnutrition is complicated by diarrhoea, respiratory infections or malaria.

While droughts are not uncommon in the area, this dry spell has been compounded by climate impact. The WFP's Mbainaissem said \"for three years in some communities, two in others, there has been no rain.\"

Rising insecurity and livestock thefts have exacerbated poverty and complicated humanitarian relief efforts. The government has deployed the military to distribute food and first aid in the area. In October, President Andry Rajoelina, his wife and son gave out rations in villages.

The local head of the WFP Mbainaissem has warned of a disaster if emergency food assistance are not provided.

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