Cape Town City striker Khanyisa Mayo is in high demand and is reportedly engaging in ongoing talks with a North African club. Article continues below Article continues below Article continues below Mayo attracts interest away from CT CityReportedly in talks with a club in North AfricaHis agent speaks out on the situation Click here to get Mzansi's best soccer coverage delivered to you via WhatsApp. Article continues below

Irregular migration over the last decade has remained as one of the most formidable challenges confronting even the most advanced and powerful nations globally. Analysts within North African countries are beginning to view the migration issue from this perspective. As a result of this evolving international scenario it is generally agreed that partial approaches to the migration issue are no longer viable solutions. The necessity of such an initiative becomes evident when examining the statistics and trends related to irregular migration. For African countries, especially those in sub-Saharan Africa, the loss of youth and skilled individuals is also hampering development.

Clear air turbulence, the invisible peril haunting the skies, is expected to intensify with climate change, scientists warn. Researchers have determined that from 1980 to 2021, the frequency of clear air turbulence increased in the Northern Hemisphere. This might be a bolt from the blue for many, as clear air turbulence is generally unexpected and, unlike other turbulence types, difficult to detect and avoid. Danger of clear air turbulenceThe dangers associated with turbulence might be well-known to those who frequently fly, but clear air turbulence, being invisible and unpredictable, poses a unique threat. “We now have high confidence that climate change is increasing clear air turbulence in some regions,” noted Foudad.

DALLAS — Scientists at the University of Toulouse have predicted an increase in clear-air turbulence in the Northern Hemisphere as the climate changes. Climate experts utilized 11 climate models and 20 computer simulations to anticipate changes in clear-air turbulence under various scenarios of temperature rises ranging from 1 to 4 degrees Celsius. BoeingWhat Is Clear-Air Turbulence? Clear-air turbulence is commonly found near jet streams at altitudes of 10-12 kilometers, where commercial planes travel. Climate change is already affecting clear-air turbulence.

Fighting on a scale not seen in months broke out on Thursday between the army and separatists in Tinzaouaten, near the border with Algeria, after the army announced it had taken control of In-Afarak, a commercial crossroads in Kidal.

Israel hits Hezbollah targets after football pitch strike kills 12 young peopleGolan Heights strike: 'There was a siren, but no-one had time to react'Israel says it has hit Hezbollah targets in Lebanon after 12 children and young adults were killed in a rocket strike while playing football in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Saturday's bloodshed at the town's football pitch was the deadliest loss of life in and around Israel's northern border since October. Verified video shows crowds of people on a football pitch and stretchers being rushed to ambulances. Majdal Shams is one of four towns in the Golan Heights, where about 25,000 members of the Arabic-speaking Druze religious and ethnic group live. EPA Stretchers were rushed to ambulances shortly after the strikeReuters The rocket impact damaged the area around a football pitch in Majdal Shams

In this view, early humans bypassed West and Central Africa, especially tropical forests. Working in Senegal, Cameroon, Malawi and elsewhere, they are uncovering evidence that early humans spread across much more of Africa before venturing elsewhere. This has contributed to the idea that early modern humans primarily inhabited these regions. She has shown that Middle Stone Age culture persisted in West Africa until quite recently, less than about 11,000 years ago. Richard Klein, a paleoanthropologist at Stanford University who has spent decades studying early modern human origins and migration in Africa, says, “I don’t understand the evolutionary mechanism behind” the pan-African origins theory.

Morocco, under the leadership of King Mohammed VI, has attached utmost priority to sustainable water management in the context of recurrent drought and adverse climate change impact. Building on the legacy of his father late King Hassan II, King Mohammed VI urged building more dams designed to supply urban centers and farms as well as the use of non-conventional water resources, notably desalination. Acting on the monarch’s directives, the state has allocated 14 billion dollars over 2020-2027 to securing water resources and improving water management. Following the example of an operating desalination plant in Agadir and a developing one in Dakhla, Casablanca’s plant will allocate 50 million cubic meters to irrigation. Thanks to a farsighted approach, Morocco’s second largest tourist hub, Agadir, was spared water rationing and water cuts after a desalination plant started pumping fresh water to households and adjacent farms in 2021.

Mali's army and its Russian allies suffered a major setback and significant losses Saturday while fighting separatists in the country's north, a spokesman for the rebels told AFP. "Russian mercenaries and Malian armed forces have fled," he added. "The Malian army has retreated," a local politician told AFP, citing at least 17 dead in a provisional toll. The army and Wagner are no longer there," he added, referring to the Russian mercenary group. Fighting also took place further south toward Abeibara, the politician said.

19 missing after boat capsizes in northern Ethiopia: local media Published on:Read < 1 minuteSome 19 people are missing following a boat capsized in northern Ethiopia, local media reported Sunday. The incident occurred Saturday afternoon when a boat carrying 26 people sank in the Tekeze River in the northern Amhara region, the Amhara Media Corporation reported Sunday. Noting that seven people, including a child, were rescued from the river, local officials said they have not yet determined the death toll from the incident. The rescued child, in particular, suffered serious injuries and is currently receiving medical care at a nearby health facility. The local officials, however, said the 19 missing people might have died from the accident, according to the report.

blinking-dot Live updates Live updates,Israel’s war on Gaza live: Heavy fighting breaks out as tanks advanceIsraeli tanks push deeper into Gaza’s two main southern cities as fighting between troops and Palestinian armed groups rages.

A six-year drought has imperiled the country's entire agriculture sector, including farmers who grow cereals and grains used to feed humans and livestock. Belhoussni's plight is familiar to grain farmers throughout the world confronting a hotter and drier future. Climate change is imperiling the food supply and, in regions like North Africa, shrinking the annual yields of cereals that dominate diets around the world — wheat, rice, maize and barley. The organization has advised farmers on seeding, irrigation and drought mitigation as less rain falls and less water flows through Morocco's rivers. The amount of land seeded has dramatically shrunk as well, from 36,700 square kilometers to 9,540 square miles 24,700 square kilometers.

JOHANNESBURG, JULY 27: A record drought that has devastated crops across southern Africa, causing millions of people to go hungry and pushing 5 countries to declare a national disaster, is entering its worst stage, the UN has warned. “The worst period comes now”, WFP’s Acting Regional Director for southern Africa, Lola Castro, told AFP in an interview. According to some estimates, the drought is the worst to hit the region in 100 years, she said. “When you go now to rural productive areas of Southern Africa, what you see is a devastated scenario”, she said. It has so far received about $200 million, Castro said.

The slender-horned rhim gazelles, which are native to North Africa, have become an endangered species (Mahmud Turkia)Cocooned in white bags and nestled in the arms of volunteers, eight young rhim gazelles -- an endangered species native to North Africa -- have been transferred to an uninhabited Libyan island. Environmentalist hope their new home on Farwa island, near Tunisia, will be a haven for the vulnerable animal. As soon as they were released, the young gazelles took off frolicking before promptly disappearing behind the island's wild bushes. Farwa, though not their natural habitat, seems to have suited the first group of gazelles released on the island, Youssef Gandouz, an environmental activist, told AFP. "The vegetation on Farwa is sufficient" for the survival of rhim gazelles, said Ftess, and Gandouz added the narrow island "is now a safe haven where turtles and migratory birds can nest and feed".

At least 30 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on a school in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, Palestinian health officials said. The Israeli military said it had targeted a 'Hamas command and control centre inside the Khadija school compound in central Gaza'. Reuters reported that ambulances took injured Palestinians to al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah. Journalists on the ground reported that a toddler was among those killed