Cyclone Idai: The aftermath

Mozambique's minister for land, environment and rural development gives the latest figures on those affected;

Algerian head of the army- Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaid Salah has called for ailing eighty-two year old president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika to be declared unable to rule, as per the constitution;

And in South Africa, the Dean of clinical medicine of the University of KwaZulu-Natal has earned worldwide praise after she helped discover a new gene that is a major cause of permanent hair loss amongst women of African descent;

(Photo: Rescue workers in mask preparing to offload bodies. Credit: Reuters)