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The floods in Niger are not as spectacular as those in Pakistan, but they spell disaster for a people already stricken by a food crisis.

Tropical Storm Earl barrelling towards the eastern fringe of the Caribbean threatens to gain hurricane status, as Category Two storm Danielle weakened.

PETROSA has reassured Mossel Bay residents that its gas-to-liquids refinery, which provides about 3000 jobs in the town, will not close down despite predictions that the plant will run out of water by the end of October due to the prolonged drought in the Southern Cape.

United Nations aid agencies have provided assistance to hundreds of thousands of victims of Pakistan's worst floods in decades but relief operations have yet to reach an estimated six million people.

Armed bandits are exacerbating the misery of Pakistan's massive floods, stealing cattle and food from survivors fleeing the country's humanitarian disaster.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame secured another seven-year term Wednesday after being declared landslide winner of an election criticised by international observers for shutting out the real opposition.

A veld fire caused the massive blaze on a section of Egoli Gas pipeline in City Deep in Johannesburg, the company has said.

Authorities shot three people dead as a mob threatened to burn down a police station in an area of northern Nigeria that has been a hotbed of political and religious violence, police said.

Authorities shot three people dead as a mob threatened to burn down a police station in an area of northern Nigeria that has been a hotbed of political and religious violence, police said.

Floods sweeping Asia have killed more than 900 people, washing away thousands of homes and destroying infrastructure in some of the worst scenes in living memory.