In Southern Africa (including Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Zambia) the El Niño phenomenon often leads to drought, causing severe water shortages that harm staple crops like maize and sorghum. This can exacerbate food insecurity in already vulnerable regions. While some high altitude regions benefit from more rain, other lower altitude regions may experience flooding, which can destroy crops and infrastructure, especially in areas unprepared for heavy rains.
South African authorities are engaged in a standoff with hundreds of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West province, having cut off their food and water supplies as part of a strategy to "smoke them out". The miners in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other necessities after police closed off the entrances used to transport their supplies underground.
Police have spent weeks working to clear the abandoned gold mine, as part of its Vala Umgodi (Close the Hole) operation to round up and arrest illegal miners.
North West police spokesperson Sabata Mokgwabone said information received from those who recently helped bring three miners to the surface indicated that as many as 4,000 miners may be underground. Police have not provided an official estimate.
At least 1,000 illegal miners — known locally as zama-zamas — have surfaced in recent weeks with many reported to be weak, hungry and sickly after going without supplies.
Police said on Thursday that they were continuing to guard areas around the mine to catch those appearing from underground. A decomposed body was recovered on Thursday, and pathologists were on the scene, said spokesperson Athlenda Mathe.
"The forced displacement is widespread, systematic and intentional, and forms part of a state policy and amounts to a crime against humanity," she continued. "In the areas where the military has raised, extended and cleared land for buffer zones and security corridors, Human Rights Watch finds these actions of the Israeli authorities amount to ethnic cleansing.", said Nadia Hardman. Human Rights Watch made several recommendations to the international community in their report, including targeted sanctions, suspensions of weapons transfer and an ICC investigation.
The former police chief in charge of Spain’s economic crimes unit has been arrested after officers found €20 million ($21.2 million) stashed in the walls of his house. The arrest was linked to the country’s largest ever cocaine bust, local media reported.
Oscar Sanchez Gil was arrested last week along with 15 other people, AFP reported on Wednesday, citing Spanish media. The arrests came a month after 13 tons of cocaine were found in a container of bananas seized at Spain’s southern port of Algeciras. The haul, which originated in Ecuador, was the largest ever drug shipment seized in Spain, and the second-largest in the EU, Spain’s National Police announced earlier this month.
Officers investigating the shipment quickly discovered links between the importers and Sanchez Gil, and ordered a search of his home near Madrid. They found €20 million in cash hidden in the walls of the property, and €1 million in his office, AFP reported.
Sanchez Gil’s romantic partner, who is also a police officer, was among the 15 others arrested. The detainees have been charged with drug trafficking, bribery, money laundering, corruption and membership of a criminal organization, police sources told the news agency.
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The European Union may redirect tens of billions of euros earmarked for supporting its poorer member states to defense, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing EU officials.
The potential policy shift follows the election of Donald Trump as the next US president and calls for NATO members in the EU to boost their own defense spending as the Ukraine conflict continues.