Africa Rise and Shine

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, marked seven years since the launch of its Hashtag I Belong Campaign to End Statelessness. The agency has urged that more action is needed to resolve the plight of millions around the world who are still without citizenship. According to UNHCR, statelessness, or the situation of not being recognized as a citizen by any country, is affecting millions of people around the world. And for more on this, Lulu Gaboo spoke to Emmanuelle Mitte, UNHCR Senior Statelessness Officer

At least thirty schools, nine of which are supported by Save the Children, have been damaged in the recent violent protests in South Africa. At least one school is reported to have been burnt to the ground. One of the Save the Children supported schools that has been damaged is for children with disabilities, who are already at a higher risk of losing long-term access to education due to COVID-19. For more on this, Lulu Gaboo spoke to  Steven Miller, CEO of Save the Children in South Africa........

The Zambezi River Authority - a body that manages water on Lake Kariba and the Zambezi river has guaranteed that there would be enough water for power generation this year. Lake Kariba supplies water for electricity generation in Zambia and Zimbabwe and has allocated 12 billion cubic meters for this year. Channel Africa's John Cassim has more from Harare .

South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa has brought forward the closure of schools for the winter holidays by a few weeks, as the country battles to curb the rise of new Covid-19 infections. Schools will start closing on Wednesday, and are expected to be all closed by the end of the week. The country, the worst-hit by the pandemic on the African continent is in the grip of a "third wave" of infections, with fears that it could eclipse the previous two waves. For more reaction on the school closure, Lulu Gaboo spoke to Wycliffe Otieno, Chief of Education at the United Children's Fund in South Africa.....

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the new adjusted alert level four restrictions on Sunday which includes a ban on the sale of liquor. The ban is the fourth since the 1st case of the CORONA virus was reported in South Africa. For more on this, Lulu Gaboo spoke to Lucky Ntimane, National Convener of the National Liquor Traders Council in South Africa.....