It's been one week since an earthquake struck Morocco, killing nearly 3000 people...The hardest-hit areas were those south of Marrakesh, where many mountain villages were completely destroyed. Morocco is rolling out a new aid program to re-house survivors... Around 50,000 buildings are damaged and some experts say it will take "weeks, months, years to be able to rebuild hundreds of villages.
South Africa is getting ready to hold a state funeral for Mangosuthu Buthelezi this saturday.The Traditional Prime Minister of the Zulu Nation and actor of the apartheid liberation struggle died last week at the age of 95.
The number of migrants arriving in Italy from North Africa has doubled since the start of the year... compared to the same period last year. Over the past days, there has been a surge of arrivals in Lampedusa... sending authorities there into overdrive. This... despite an agreement struck this summer between the EU and Tunisia aiming to stem the flow of migrants from the continent to Europe.
