The famous Sun City resort in South Africa continued its cleanup on Monday following a freak storm that caused hail damage, flooding and mudslides at the weekend. “Most of the damage was caused by flash flooding at the Sun Central family and entertainment precinct, and in ground floor hotel rooms,”…
Meteorologists tracking Sagar, a relatively rare tropical storm that strengthened as it crossed the entire Gulf of Aden, are expecting landfall on Saturday near the Djibouti-Somalia border. It has potential impacts for Ethiopia too as it reaches the Horn of Africa. Flash floods were reported in the Bari region of…
Weather agencies across the globe are keeping an eye on a relatively rare tropical storm that’s strengthened in the Gulf of Aden, with potential impacts for Horn of Africa nations including Djibouti and Somalia. Meteorologist Ryan Maue, a tropical storm expert in the United States, noted an eye feature in…
More than 1,000 miners in South Africa trapped below ground since Wednesday night are safe, following the restoration of power following a storm-related outage. The miners at a Sibanye-Stillwater Beatrix gold mine near Welkom were brought to the surface early Friday morning after power was restored at about 3 a.m.,…
It’s not every day that you find “Sahara” trending on Twitter accounts in Ireland and England, but Monday was no ordinary day as thousands of people marveled at skies turned orange and yellow, and a sun turned a striking red. People described “surreal skies” and a daylong eerie scene in…
Parts of South Africa that have experienced severe drought were confronted with a new catastrophe on Wednesday as wildfires fueled by storm-related winds erupted along the coastal Western Cape. At least eight people are reported to have died as the severe storm swept ashore, fanning flames that spread through Knysna,…
Unusually severe storms that swept across southern Africa hit Mozambique hard on Monday evening, with local media outlet and NGO employees reporting injuries and fatalities in the city of Maputo. The storms arrived as Rwandan President Paul Kagame was in Mozambique for two-day meetings with President Filipe Nyusi, including a…