natural disasters

As severe thunderstorms bearing heavy downpours and hail threaten South Africa's nine provinces, rescue teams in California continue searching for nine skiers missing after a Lake Tahoe avalanche, highlighting the mounting challenges of extreme weather events across continents.

While severe storms threaten two provinces with hail and strong winds, SanParks appeals for public support to restore Kruger National Park's infrastructure damaged by recent catastrophic flooding.

Tropical Cyclone Gezani has veered away from direct landfall in Mozambique and will bypass Zimbabwe entirely, though the storm compounds a humanitarian crisis that has already displaced nearly 700,000 people across the region.