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A nationwide strike by South Africa's largest labour unions unite over suffocating inflation, electricity blackouts and the rising cost of living across the country. The working class unites, blocking roads and demanding action by the government. IMAGES
Police guard a closed-off street in Johannesburg after a man was shot dead when security forces moved to disperse students protesting over South Africa's tuition aid scheme. Clashes erupted when police used rubber bullets to disperse a group of students who were blocking roads with rubble and disrupting traffic in downtown Johannesburg around the University of the Witwatersrand. IMAGES
South African health workers protest in Pretoria against low salaries and a lack of adequate PPE. Although South Africa has seen a drop in confirmed Covid-19 cases and fatalities recently, it has the fifth most infections in the world. IMAGES
South African Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says that the South African nationals stuck in Wuhan are "fine" and are expected to be flown back home "before the weekend is over." SOUNDBITE
Anxious parents wait for news outside a primary school in central Kenya, after an overnight fire in a dormitory kills at least 17 children and injured several others. Police say the blaze in Nyeri county's Hillside Endarasha Academy broke out at around midnight, while the children were sleeping. There are fears there could be more victims in the damaged building. Some 800 pupils, between the ages of roughly five and 12 attend the institution. IMAGES
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