Prominent Bulawayo Businesswoman ,Beauty Mpofu, who founded Sis Bee Kitchen Restaurants, was laid to rest Friday at Lady Stanley Cemetery in Bulawayo. She died last Friday from renal failure. Her body seen being taken to her resting place. (Photos: Ezra Tshisa Sibanda)
Acting US Ambassador to South Africa Todd P. Haskel will speak to VOA about the legacy of Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Fighters from Somalia's al Shabaab group attacked a town north of the capital, Mogadishu, killing at least seven people; And Four soldiers were killed in Mali.
NASA successfully launched its much-anticipated next-generation space telescope. Now come weeks of nervousness for project scientists who can only hope the next steps go as planned. VOA’s Arash Arabasadi brings us The Week in Space.
Tidal waves and coastal erosion have submerged an entire fishing community on Ghana's eastern coast. Many villagers had already been relocated from past tidal waves and have petitioned the government for a permanent solution. Senanu Tord reports from the village of Fuvemeh in Ghana.
Rescue brigades in Bolivia used boats to save livestock amid floods following torrential rainfall in much of the Andean country that has claimed the lives of 15 people.
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