here is your latest african news south africa south africa parents says racism rife at school
protests broke out at a school after an alleged racially motivated attack that left
two limping the protesters and pupils claimed that racism that involved violence from white
students towards a group of african students was why they took to the streets rubber bullets and
tear gas were fired outside the institution to disperse protesting parents congress of south
african student members and protesters dressed in anc and eff regalia picketing outside the school
and calling for an end to racism tensions ran high as there were clear divisions among parents
in contact schooling was suspended with the school saying classes would resume online
morocco morocco and israel agree on 500 million defense missile deal morocco has signed a 500
million us dollar deal with the israeli state-run company israel aerospace industries to acquire an
air and missile defense system israeli media has reported according to the same source iai will
provide morocco with the barrack mx system in a deal that was discussed during israeli
defense minister benny ghat's visit to morocco in november last year barak mx provides a single
integrated solution for multiple simultaneous aerial threats from different sources and ranges
in several mission types and battle conditions the reports also added that these threats include
fighters sea scheming cruise missiles ballistic missiles drones helicopters and gliding bombs
and the system offers three interception ranges of 35 70 150 kilometers morocco and israel had signed
a historic agreement for the establishment of diplomatic relations in december 2020
madagascar tropical cyclone de marco to hit madagascar northeast of madagascar is
expected to be struck by tropical cyclone de marco and according to local forecasts making
it the third storm to attack the island in a month tropical cyclone de marco was seen heading towards
madagascar from reunion island and was estimated to make landfall it is expected to enter the
region between saint marie and antalaja and to exit this near nosy bee as a moderate tropical
storm forecast added the local weatherman issued a greener large in the affected region dumaco
comes after tropical cyclone ana which affected the eastern and central highlands of the country
as a tropical depression and bhatsurai which is battering the southern part as a tropical cyclone
africa wide rising sea levels pose threat to africa heritage sites a research published
last week by the university of cape town's africa climate and development initiative indicated that
more heritage areas exposed to flooding compared with erosion especially the ones located along the
african coast are a threat of rising sea levels findings show that 56 of 284 identified african
heritage sites are at risk of 100-year coastal extreme events furthermore the researchers project
the number of exposed sites to more than triple by 2050. currently 23 of north africa's 109 sites
were exposed while west africa has 18 sites exposed and south and africa has seven east
africa and small island developing states have four exposed sites each tunisia has 34 sites at
risk the highest in the continent of which seven are exposed to a hundred year event with two being
highly exposed egypt has four exposed sites while morocco and senegal have seven exposed sites each
mali france finally pulled out of mali but will still remain in the sahel
french foreign affairs minister jean v ledrian has announced that french troops will pull out from
mali the leaders discussed their country's future in western africa mounting tensions between french
and myelin authorities triggered what french president macron called a need for significant
changes in his country's military presence le dirian deemed conditions were no longer met by
french forces to continue occupying mali but he insisted france would still occupy other sahelian
nations france is present in the sahel region with military operation bakhen and is also part of the
takuba international task force sahel and france leaders will meet to further discuss the situation
contrary to their 2020 in-person meeting only three of the five sahelian presidents
will be present nigerian mauritanian and charging leaders will attend the meeting
south africa nelson mandela's home converted into a boutique hotel the late statesman nelson
mandela's estate residence has been converted into a boutique hotel named sanctuary mandela
the property for long had been defaced but now boasts nine rooms and a capacity to accommodate
18 guests with multiple mandela portraits on the wall objects and belonging that adorn the
house also display his role as a nobel peace prize winner an anti-appetite activist political leader
amidst other roles inside the hotel there were letters that madiba personally wrote in the house
one of them is a letter he wrote on february 13 1990 two days after his release from prison there
are also letters he wrote during his incarceration speaking about his children who he was longing for
the foundation ceo celo hatang said he's excited about the project which was conceptualized
in 2017. the hotel has nine curated rooms a restaurant bar lounge swimming pool two meeting
rooms and an on-site parking space and is expected to open on september 1st thanks for watching
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