South Africa floods kill seven
At least seven people are reported to have died from floods in South Africa's Kwazulu-Natal province, with the death toll expected to rise.
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Many areas in the south-eastern parts of the province are recovering from heavy rains and storms that hit earlier in the week.
A body of a woman in her 20s and a teenage girl were the latest to be retrieved from a canal in the city of Durban.
At least 70 homes have been destroyed and more than 150 people left homeless, according to the provincial authorities.
Disaster management teams are still assessing the impact of the floods.
In other news;
Burkina Faso regulator bans French TV channel
The media regulator in Burkina Faso has banned a French television news channel for three months, accusing it of spreading false information about jihadist violence.
The high council for communication (CSC) accused the channel, LCI, of saying that jihadists were advancing rapidly and government troops were using local defence force volunteers as cannon fodder to protect themselves from the onslaught.
In April the government in Ouagadougou expelled journalists working for the French newspapers Le Monde and Liberation.
Two other broadcasters, France 24 and Radio France International, have also been suspended indefinitely.
