Africa

According to a statement by NDMA on Saturday, a loaded fuel tanker and a truck carrying granite stones collided on a highway late Friday while the fuel tanker was about to enter a nearby filling station to discharge its fuel. Footages and eyewitnesses revealed that while the collision took place, both drivers came out of their vehicles and warned community residents to stay off.

Mnangagwa's candidacy was endorsed by all party wings after considering the work he had undertaken to develop the country since winning the 2018 harmonized elections. The endorsement was made at the party's annual conference which ended Saturday in the town of Bindura, nearly 60 km north of Harare, Xinhua news agency reported.

"I can authoritatively confirm to you that Abu Musab is dead," Lucky Irabor, the chief of defence staff, told reporters at the presidential villa in Abuja, without elaborating. ISWAP, led by Al Barnawi since 2016, is an offshoot of the infamous Boko Haram terror group, which has created havoc in West Africa.

As the rate of new cases fell by less than 2 per cent over the past week, driven by a sharp drop in South Africa, 21 countries are experiencing a resurgence, three more than last week, Xinhua news agency quoted Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO's Regional Director for Africa, as saying at an online briefing on Thursday.

In a statement on Thursday, Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa, said that the limited supply of oxygen and manpower in the already overwhelmed critical care facilities has fuelled the fatalities in the continent, reports Xinhua news agency. "Deaths have climbed steeply for the past five weeks. This is a clear warning sign that hospitals in the most impacted countries are reaching a breaking point," Moeti said.

While shared watercourses have been the cause of dispute, they can also be the foundation for cooperation and well-planned hydraulic infrastructure on a shared river course can be a source of enhanced collaboration and need not be a zero-sum game, she told the Security Council on Thursday during a briefing on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), whose construction is nearing completion.