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Armed community members and vigilante groups have stepped in to tackle unrest in #SouthAfrica taking matters into their own hands and sometimes stoking violence as security forces struggle to restore order. tinyurl.com/nuzyycc7 #AFP #UnrestSA

A tropical cyclone that hit central #Mozambique this weekend has displaced thousands of people and caused severe flooding in an area battered by two deadly cyclones in 2019. tinyurl.com/yyeo2rfh #AFP

'Buried by strangers': funeral curbs raise ire in Zimbabwe, where the government rolled out new restrictions this month to tackle a coronavirus resurge. By @TaruvingaMarymt for #AFP tinyurl.com/y4lp56cr

#Coronavirus has complicated and crowded cumbersome land border crossings in southern Africa, where trucks can sometimes wait days to get through sluggish customs. Story from the SA-Zimbabwe border with photos by @guillemsartorio tinyurl.com/y6a44jqv #AFP

Bottles of beer in hand, gleeful worshipers walk into a thatched-roof hall and sit down to listen to a Sunday sermon as a South African alcohol-inspired church celebrates the lifting of the ban on booze sales tinyurl.com/y5lu2zoc @SusanNjanji for #AFP

Mid-way along the Europe-Asia sea route, Algoa Bay was an obvious choice for South Africa's first ship-to-ship refuelling operation. But the bunkering happens a stone's throw away from the world's largest breeding colony of African penguins. tinyurl.com/y2v7gewa @AFPfeature

For the first time in living memory, male initiation rituals in #SouthAfrica have been called off because of the #coronavirus. A teenager and a chief spoke to #AFP about this unprecedented situation. tinyurl.com/y3hkm99w Photo by @mlongari

A court today ruled that #SouthAfrica should resume meals in school for all children. Before #coronavirus, around 9mln students received a daily meal. In rural areas, that often provides the bulk of a child's nutritional intake. tinyurl.com/yykev8fn #AFP Photo by @mlongari

"I was shaking with chills and I knew something was going on." In Port Elizabeth, four people on the front line of #coronavirus -- a survivor, a doctor, a nurse and an undertaker -- shared their personal accounts with #AFP tinyurl.com/yal4hvvu Photo by @mlongari

HIV was ravaging #SouthAfrica when Belgian doctor Eric Goemaere first set foot in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township in 1999. Two decades later, Goemaere and his colleagues at @MSF_southafrica found themselves on the frontline of another epidemic. tinyurl.com/y9hhn8xm #AFP