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This year has been quite eventful for Africa, and some of the occurrences that came to pass were captured on this page over the past 50-odd weeks. In this last edition for 2019, I take you down memory lane, highlighting some of the noteworthy events. Perhaps one of the major African news stories of 2019 was the increasing incidence and severity of extreme weather events. In Southern Africa, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe – which are among the poorest countries in the region – were buffeted by tropical cyclones in March and April that left in their wake massive destruction of infrastructure and loss of life and limb on a not insignificant scale.