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Anoraks, parkas, ponchos... In Rennes, locals wrap up warm as snow falls on the town hall square. 23 French departments have been placed on Orange "snow-ice" alert. IMAGES
Weeks of heavy rains, following the landfall of cyclone Eloise, means the Augrabie Falls are reaching rare levels of water flow. 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 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
South Africa's ruling ANC expels its former leader ex-president Jacob Zuma for leading a rival party into elections following disciplinary proceedings. "Former President Jacob Zuma has actively impugned the integrity of the ANC and campaigned to dislodge the ANC from power while claiming that he had not yet severed his membership," ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula tells a press conference. SOUNDBITE