Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1754 EAT on Thursday 21st July 2022. Once a rare occurrence, extreme fires are now becoming more frequent and lasting longer worldwide. The destructive blazes are driven at least in part by climate change, which exacerbates their scale and intensity, even in the northern winter months With temperatures spiking…

Updated by Nakayima Ritah at 1653 EAT on Tuesday 19th July 2022. The World Health Organization (WHO) says coronavirus cases have tripled across Europe in the past six weeks, accounting for nearly half of all infections globally. Super-infectious relatives of the Omicron variant  have been driving the new wave of disease across the continent, with repeated…