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Zim journo who ‘carried weapon’ to Mnangagwa meeting due in court
The journalist well-known Zenzele Ndebele was arrested after police found a used tear gas canister in his car.
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Cyclone Idai by numbers
An updated graphic showing the situation in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi after flooding this week, including details on road conditions.
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Frustration mounts in Mozambique's Beira over food, water after cyclone
In Mozambique, 242 were killed in the storm and resulting floods, according to the official death toll, although this is expected to rise.
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Cyclone Idai: How you can help the survivors
Members of the public in the affected countries, as well as their surrounds, have been called upon to lend a helping hand through donations.
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Zimbabwe's Mnangagwa declares 2 days of mourning for Cyclone Idai victims
Zimbabwe’s latest death toll from the cyclone is 139, but many more people remain missing one week after the cyclone struck the country.
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Toll from cyclone-hit southern Africa surges as UN launches health aid
Mozambican Land and Environmental Minister Celso Correia said 242 lives had been lost and 15,000 out of 18,000 stranded people still needed to be saved, many of them on rooftops or even in trees.
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Cyclone Idai: 15,000 displaced as rescue operations continue
Cyclone Idai has battered the region, including Zimbabwe and Zambia, causing rivers to burst their banks and destroying homes and buildings.
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Bread shortages possible in Zimbabwe amid Cyclone Idai
Beira was severely battered by the cyclone, which struck the region a week ago.
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Zimbabwe raises public workers pay by 29%, averts strike for now
Civil servants in the southern African nation twice rejected a lower government wage offer in January but had been divided over a strike, which led to teachers briefly walking out of their jobs.
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Thousands in need of emergency help in Cyclone Idai aftermath: rescuers
In Mozambique, which was hit twice by the wind and water, people are still being plucked from trees or rescued from roofs.
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Aid agencies struggle to rescue Mozambique cyclone victims as waters rise
The confirmed death toll stood at more than 300 and hundreds of thousands of lives were at risk, according to officials.
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Pope urges support for southern Africa cyclone victims
The death toll from the cyclone that hit last week has topped 300 people, and rescue teams are still trying to reach survivors.
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Mozambique starts 3 days of mourning after cyclone kills hundreds
Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi said in a televised statement on Tuesday that the cyclone had killed more than 200 people in Mozambique but that more bodies were still being discovered.
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Agencies continue relief efforts in cyclone-affected southern African countries
The United Nations says the storm is possibly the worst weather-related disaster ever to hit the southern hemisphere.
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Mozambique, Zimbabwe cyclone deaths exceed 300 as UN boosts aid
Four days after Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall, emergency teams in central Mozambique fanned out in boats and helicopters, seeking to pluck survivors from roofs and treetops in an inland sea of floodwater, sometimes in the dead of night.
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Grieving families bury loved ones killed by Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe
Burials have taken place for 40 people in Zimbabwe killed when Cyclone Idai slammed a town in the eastern Chimanimani mountains.
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Fears port of Beira damage may disrupt fuel, food supplies to Zimbabwe
Energy and Power Development Minister Joram Gumbo says a control room for the pipeline in Beira was also damaged during the cyclone.
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Zimbabwe seeks to raise $350 million selling shares in state firms
The country's government would dispose of shares in its two mobile phone operators NetOne and Telecel Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe’s sole fixed line telephony company TelOne, postal services Zimpost and state-owned savings bank POSB.
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Cyclone Idai: Gift of the Givers sends 32-member team to Maputo
Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi were all hit by a cyclone Idai which has left a trail of destruction since it made landfall last Thursday.
