Sumaya Bakhsh

Mar 13, 2023 | bbc.co.uk | Sumaya Bakhsh

Image source, Getty ImagesLukhanyo Calata's earliest memory of his father is his funeral. He remembers the cold, and his mother wracked with grief. It was the winter of 1985, in the small South African town of Cradock in the Eastern Cape. He recalls feeling as if the ground was moving beneath him as it reverberated with the toyi-toying - stomping and chanting - of thousands of mourners.

Mar 10, 2023 | bbc.com | Sumaya Bakhsh |Dickens Olewe |Emily Pennink |Shingai Nyoka

Posted at 14:17 13 Mar14:17 13 MarAfrica editor, BBC World ServiceAid groups and officials in Malawi say at least 60 people have died as a result of the destruction caused by tropical storm Freddy. Mobile phone footage shows homes with their roofs torn off and extremely dangerous, fast-flowing water in urban areas. The full impact is not yet clear as some areas have been cut off. The storm struck Mozambique as a cyclone on Sunday - for the second time in a less than a month.