UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, marked seven years since the launch of its Hashtag I Belong Campaign to End Statelessness. The agency has urged that more action is needed to resolve the plight of millions around the world who are still without citizenship. According to UNHCR, statelessness, or the situation of not being recognized as a citizen by any country, is affecting millions of people around the world. And for more on this, Lulu Gaboo spoke to Emmanuelle Mitte, UNHCR Senior Statelessness Officer

<p>UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, marked seven years since the launch of its Hashtag I Belong Campaign to End Statelessness. The agency has urged that more action is needed to resolve the plight of millions around the world who are still without citizenship. According to UNHCR, statelessness, or the situation of not being recognized as a citizen by any country, is affecting millions of people around the world. And for more on this, Lulu Gaboo spoke to Emmanuelle Mitte, UNHCR Senior Statelessness Officer</p>

UNHCR-CAMPAIGN

At least thirty schools, nine of which are supported by Save the Children, have been damaged in the recent violent protests in South Africa. At least one school is reported to have been burnt to the ground. One of the Save the Children supported schools that has been damaged is for children with disabilities, who are already at a higher risk of losing long-term access to education due to COVID-19. For more on this, Lulu Gaboo spoke to  Steven Miller, CEO of Save the Children in South Africa........

<p>At least thirty schools, nine of which are supported by Save the Children, have been damaged in the recent violent protests in South Africa. At least one school is reported to have been burnt to the ground. One of the Save the Children supported schools that has been damaged is for children with disabilities, who are already at a higher risk of losing long-term access to education due to COVID-19. For more on this, Lulu Gaboo spoke to &nbsp;Steven Miller, CEO of Save the Children in South Africa........</p>

SCHOOLS-DAMAGE

The Zambezi River Authority - a body that manages water on Lake Kariba and the Zambezi river has guaranteed that there would be enough water for power generation this year. Lake Kariba supplies water for electricity generation in Zambia and Zimbabwe and has allocated 12 billion cubic meters for this year. Channel Africa's John Cassim has more from Harare .

Lake Kariba, Zambezi River authorities guarantee enough water supply for power generation

South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa has brought forward the closure of schools for the winter holidays by a few weeks, as the country battles to curb the rise of new Covid-19 infections. Schools will start closing on Wednesday, and are expected to be all closed by the end of the week. The country, the worst-hit by the pandemic on the African continent is in the grip of a "third wave" of infections, with fears that it could eclipse the previous two waves. For more reaction on the school closure, Lulu Gaboo spoke to Wycliffe Otieno, Chief of Education at the United Children's Fund in South Africa.....

UNICEF SA SCHOOLS

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the new adjusted alert level four restrictions on Sunday which includes a ban on the sale of liquor. The ban is the fourth since the 1st case of the CORONA virus was reported in South Africa. For more on this, Lulu Gaboo spoke to Lucky Ntimane, National Convener of the National Liquor Traders Council in South Africa.....

SA ALCOHOL BAN

A group of concerned Zimbabwean youth have organized a 100 kilometer walk to raise awareness on anti-rhino poaching efforts in the region. In 1999 more than 2000 rhinos were accounted for near the majestic Victoria Falls, but now only a small population is left owing to poaching. Channel Africa's JOHN CASSIM reports from ZIMBABWE

Anti-rhino poaching efforts in Zimbabwe

Ethiopia's military has rejected accounts that dozens of civilians were killed in an air raid in the country's embattled Tigray region, saying its forces had only struck rebels. Local residents and medics quoted by multiple news outlets said this week dozens of innocent people were killed in the aerial attack on a busy market in the town of Togoga on Tuesday. The war in the country's North, that began in November 2020 has put some 5 million people in a humanitarian crisis, with the International community continuing to call for a ceasefire. For more on this, our correspondent in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababba, Coletta Wanjohi, spoke to Dina Mufti, Spokesperson of the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Tigray Air Strikes

The COVID-19 outbreak has had a devastating global effect in almost all sectors, including the publishing industry in Africa. Many African publishers are said to be overdependent on selling printed textbooks to governments, a one-track business model that has had a catastrophic impact on them when COVID-19 closed schools and drove learning online. Now, the Africa Publishing Innovation Fund (APIF) committee, led by the international Publishers Association (IPA) and comprising veteran publishers from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tunisia, and South Africa, believes cultivating reading for fun in Africa - especially among children and young adults - stands to bring the continent wide socioeconomic advancements to the industry in the long term. More from Brian Wafawarowa, a member of the APIF committee…

African Publishing

South Africa's Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment affairs has refused to give authorisation to Turkish powership company- Karpowership, blocking the energy company from providing emergency power to the debilitated South African grid. The application was dismissed on environmental grounds. Karpowership was named as a major winner in a government emergency power tender designed to help ease crippling power cuts. For analysis on this is Professor Mark Swilling, the co-director for Centre for Sustainability Transitions at the Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

South Africa's government rejects Karpowership bid for environmental permits

The National Institute of Communicable Diseases last night announced that South Africa recorded 16- thousand - and -78 new COVID-19 cases, with 9 - thousand of those found in the Gauteng province, the country's economic hub. The province's premier, David Makura has said the country cannot afford to shut down the province and are looking at a hybrid lockdown approach. The southern African nation is currently on level 3 lockdown. There's been calls from the medical fraternity to impose stricter restrictions on movement in order to limit the high rate of infection the country is currently experiencing as it faces the third wave. More from Chairperson at the South African Medical Association, Dr Angelique Coetzee

Update on Covid-19 in South Africa

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