Ethiopia arrests thousands including ex-army commander

Authorities in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region say they have arrested more than 4,500 individuals including a former army commander. South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province has been pounded by heavy rains again and hundreds of residents have been evacuated amid fears of renewed flooding. And Ntsika Kota, a pharmacist from Eswatini who only took up writing as a hobby, makes history by becoming the first person from his country to win the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa.