Author: African Matters

   The death toll from deadly floods in South Africa has risen to 443, mostly in the Durban region on the country’s east coast. This update came in a new report issued by local authorities on Sunday, while 63 people are still missing. “The death toll has now risen to 443,” KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Minister Sehli Zikalala told a news conference. The rains, which reached unprecedented levels in 60 years, caused in eroding bridges and roads, and isolating large areas. South Africa regularly experiences deadly storms during the cyclone season from November to April, but the country of South Africa is…

 Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children, die in Africa each year from malaria, which is An ancient epidemic transmitted by mosquitoes and that has become increasingly prevalent during the COVID-19 outbreak period. The World Health Organization estimates that 627,000 people died of malaria in 2020, the latest year for which data is available, a 12% increase from 2019. Sub-Saharan Africa, the eastern Mediterranean, the Americas and areas in the Pacific such as Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands are all at risk. Before 2020, the world was making steady progress in dealing with and treating malaria transmission, especially…

The Moroccan team, Al-Wydad, completed the semi-final of the African Champions League in football, after estranged the Algerian team ” Shabab Belouizdad”, after they tied negatively in the second leg of the quarter-finals, to set a date in the semi-finals with Petro Atletico of Angola, which overthrew the South African Mamelodi Sun downs, after their 1-1 draw. in Johannesburg. In the other semi-final, Al-Ahly of Egypt will meet with Algeria’s ES Setif in the “North African derby.” The semi-final matches will be held on 6-7 and 13-14 May, and the final on 29 of the same month. In front of…

The United Nations World Food Program said that there is a “very real risk of famine” in East Africa, where drought has increased in the region due to lack of rain for three consecutive seasons and we are approaching the fourth. “The number of people affected by the drought was estimated at 13 to 14 million people, but this number has since increased to between 15 and 16 million people”, Michael Dunford, Regional Director of the World Food Program for East Africa, told reporters in Nairobi. He stressed that if the rains are absent again this year, the number may…

The political scene in the United Kingdom witnessed a major opposition campaign against the so-called “Rwanda deal”, announced by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson regarding the deportation of asylum seekers to Britain to the eastern African country of Rwanda pending a decision on their asylum application. The opposition included nearly 160 British human rights and charities, in addition to the opposition of a number of parliamentarians, politicians and clerics to this deal, which everyone agreed that it might affect the political fate of the British Prime Minister and the ruling Conservative Party in the coming period. The United Nations High…