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The World Food Programme's (WFP) Assistant Executive Director, Valerie Guarnieri, speaking from Rome during a UN briefing says that "27 million people have been affected by the El Nino-induced drought" in South Africa adding that almost four million children are suffering from "acute malnutrition". SOUNDBITE
The morning after rioters torched vehicles and looted shops following a knife attack outside a school in Dublin, shopkeepers and handymen get to work cleaning up the burnt cars and broken glass left on O'Connell Street, one of the Irish capital's most famous thoroughfares. Thursday night's unrest came after three children were injured in a stabbing near the centre of the Irish capital, resulting in the worst violence in decades which authorities blamed on right-wing groups. IMAGES
A Taiwan bus taking elderly local tourists home from visiting seasonal cherry blossoms has careered off a highway night leaving 32 dead, in the island's worst road accident in decades. IMAGES
En 1994, Whitney Houston était sur scène à Durban, en Afrique du Sud, devenant ainsi la première grande artiste occidentale à se rendre dans cette nation nouvellement unifiée post-apartheid, à la suite de l'élection du président Nelson Mandela.
The Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of an mpox outbreak, receives its first vaccines -- almost half of 200,000 doses donated by the European Union and due to arrive by the end of the week to fight its spread. IMAGES
Chinese President Xi Jinping presides over the opening ceremony of the triennial Forum on China–Africa Cooperation. The summit is Beijing's biggest in years, with promises of cooperation in infrastructure, energy and education. IMAGES
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