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Cape Town’s taps are due to be turned off because of severe drought. It is not alone in having water woes.

Ten women seized from a police convoy and three college lecturers taken during an oil trip are freed.

Residents have been rationing their water use because of a very real risk the taps will run dry.

After Apartheid, South Africans had to try to confront their brutal past without endangering their future.

Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed tells the BBC that Somalia is on course to defeat the Islamist group