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CBS News
10-05-2025
- Climate
- CBS News
At least 62 killed and dozens missing after flooding in eastern Congo
Heavy flooding following torrential rains in eastern Congo washed away several villages along the shores of Lake Tanganyika, leaving at least 62 dead and 50 missing, authorities said Saturday. Witnesses described the floods surging at around 5 a.m. local time on Friday and sweeping away the village of Kasaba on the edge of the lake in the Ngandja sector. The South Kivu provincial health minister, Théophile Walulika Muzaliwa, said by phone that the rescue operation was hampered by a lack of services and a shutdown of telephone lines due to the flooding. "Sector chiefs, village chiefs and locality chiefs, who are also members of the local government, are on site. The only humanitarian organization currently present is the Red Cross. It is not possible to give an assessment as body searches are continuing," he said. Last month, flooding in the capital, Kinshasa, killed 33 people. Decades of fighting between government troops and rebels in eastern Congo escalated in February, worsening what is already one of the world's largest humanitarian crises.
BBC News
15-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Mr Vango holds on to win Midlands Grand National
Mr Vango held on to claim victory ahead of Tanganyika in the Midlands Grand National at Vango, ridden by Jack Tudor, led early on and was at or near the front throughout the four and a quarter mile 25-fence Bradstock's top-weighted nine-year-old then built up a lead of about two lengths after the penultimate fence and, despite Tanganyika closing in, took Vango added the win to victories in the London National at Sandown in December and the Peter Marsh at Haydock in January."He's great fun and a great jumper," Tudor told ITV Racing. Bradstock, speaking to Sky Sports Racing, said: "He's wonderful, isn't he?"He just doesn't know when to give up, he gallops and jumps and just keeps going."He is much better than anybody thought. If you saw him at home, you'd laugh because he seems to be slow!"
