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                                      November 10th to November 21th 2023 South Africa Student dies of lightning storm injuries in Durban A third-year student at Mangosuthu University of Technology has died of injuries sustained in a lightning storm in Durban on Friday.  In a notice to staff and students on Monday, the institution identified the student as Mpumezi Mndwetywa from the department of mechanical engineering.  The storm led to a fire in some of the rooms on the third floor of Craiglee, an external university residence in Glenwood. Mndwetywa was asleep in his room. The university said counselling services will be available for students affected by the tragedy. South Africa's ANC backs motion to close Israeli embassy South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) party said on Thursday that it would support a parliamentary motion calling for the Israeli embassy in So...

                                          October 26th to November 8th 2023 Malawi Refugee rights violations in Malawi were reported to Complaints Commission Inua Advocacy an organization advocating for refugee rights in Malawi and beyond submitted to the Independent Complaints Commission (ICC) 37 cases of refugee rights violations “perpetrated by Malawi Police Service (MPS) officers” in the government’s relocation of refugees and asylum seekers to Dzaleka refugee comp. The organization’s Advocacy and Liaison Officer, Matchona Phiri, said this on Sunday in Lilongwe during a public dialogue on the affairs of refugee and asylum seekers in Malawi, which was organized by Youth and Society (YAS) in partnership with Welthungerhilfe (WHH). The government, using MPS, is relocating all refugees and asylum seekers living in urban and rural areas to Dzaleka camp, a move civil society (CSO) ...