The Nigerian Mission in South Africa and the Nigerian Doctors Forum South Africa (NDF-SA) have condemned attempts allegedly by the Independent Media Group (IMG) in South Africa, to drag the reputation of Nigerian doctors into the mud over the controversial South African decuplets (10 babies born at the same birth).

A statement issued on Sunday, to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, by Mr Abdul Malik Ahmed, Nigeria Consul General in Johannesburg, South Africa, said their reaction followed a media conference by the IMG on Oct. 27, 2021, pointedly trying to drag Nigeria’s name into the mud.

Ahmed, in the statement, said: the attention of the Consul General and NDF-SA was drawn to IMG’s conference led by Dr Igbal Surve, in respect to the Gauteng decuplets melodrama.

He explained that the allegation was unfounded because the handlers failed to take into cognizance the identity of the doctor that they engaged with.

Ahmed maintained that it was irresponsible for the IMG to have violated the basic tenets of journalism, by going to press without basic facts, but relying on falsehood, disinformation and defamation.

Algeria, which has cut off diplomatic ties with Morocco, will stop supplying natural gas to the country through the Maghreb-Europe pipeline from Nov. 1, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

The 13.5 billion cubic-meter (bcm) Maghreb-Europe pipeline links Algeria to Spain. Algeria will keep supplying Spain using the Medgaz undersea pipeline with an annual capacity of 8 bcm, which does not go through Morocco, the sources said.

Analysts say technical issues relating to Algeria’s plans to expand the capacity of the Medgaz pipeline could escalate the energy crisis in Spain at a time of soaring gas bills across Europe.

Algeria in August hinted at the possibility of ending natural gas exports in October to Morocco of 1 billion cubic meters (bcm), used to produce around 10% of the kingdom’s electricity.

A Tanzanian pilot has been missing for almost two weeks after his aircraft went off the radar while on a conservation mission.

His employer Pams Foundation over the weekend said an ongoing search for the pilot had had not been successful.

Samwel Gibuyi was flying solo on 18 October to join his workmate at the Selous Game Reserve.

He failed to arrive at the designated time and a search was launched immediately.

Pams project manager Max Jenes is quoted by The Citizen newspaper as saying that the aircraft was being traced using some special tool and had not been found.

A physical search along the route has also been ongoing.

The conservation foundation said it would not rest until he was found:

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, has urged his supporters to use any weapons they have to stop an advance by Tigrayan rebel forces.

Mr Abiy said it was the duty of citizens to, “block, destroy and bury” the forces of the TPLF rebels.

He issued the appeal on Facebook after the rebels said they’d made further territorial gains in the Amhara region, taking them closer to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

A TPLF spokesman, Getachew Reda, said they had captured Kombolcha city and that their only aim was to break a siege of Tigray.

The Ethiopian government has denied assertions by the TPLF rebels that they’ve seized Kombolcha and nearby Dessie in the Amhara region.

It came as a spokesman of the rebel Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) also said they had taken Kemise city – about 50km (33 miles) from Kombolcha and 325km from Addis Ababa – and were fighting with government forces.

Malawi’s president has a strong message to the rich, developed nations that are yet to meet a promise to pay £100bn to poorer countries each year to deal with climate change.

As long ago as 2009, the developed world pledged that it would mobilise that sum by 2020 to help less-developed countries deal with the effects of climate change and build greener economies.

But this target has still not been achieved and the UK government, which is hosting this summit, now says it’s unlikely to be until 2023.

For many countries, this is the biggest issue to resolve – and the very poorest are demanding action in Glasgow. They say those who have the most historical responsibility for climate change should pay the most to deal with it.

It a valid call when you consider the fact that Africa has remained largely underdeveloped while the developed nations have agressively pursued industrialisation up till this point.

South Africans started voting on Monday in municipal elections, with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) facing discontent over poor services and stark inequality 27 years after ending white minority rule.

The ANC’s rise to power in 1994 drew a line under centuries of racist oppression of the country’s majority Blacks by the descendents of white settlers.

But critics say the liberators have proved less effective at more mundane tasks like fixing drains, supplying clean water and keeping the lights on.

Failures to maintain roads, sewerage treatment plants and creaking coal-fired power stations could cost the legacy party of late liberation hero Nelson Mandela.

Analysts expect its vote share to fall below 50% for the first time, from 54% in the last local polls, itself the ANC’s worst outcome yet.