Analysts fear that,  like Al Shabaab, the terror group will use relatively soft targets in Africa to show it is still operational.

So-called Islamic State has made its deadly presence felt in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Northern Mozambique, Mali and Burkina Faso.

The news portal Defence Web says this should of concern to South Africa’s National Defence Force which might be called in to protect neighbors from the Southern African Development Community.

The ISIS fighters have not been flown in to African locations. They have come in smaller numbers escaping fighting in Syria and Iraq, bringing with them experience, skills, techniques and tactics.

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She’ll be accompanied to Beira and Chimanini by mining magnate and humanitarian POatrice Motsepe.

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Foreign minister  Lindiwe Sisulu will visit South African and United Nations rescue teams working to help those displaced by the flooding two weeks ago.

She’s carrying food, clothes, water and blankets collected from South African businesses and individuals.

The death toll from the cyclone in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi and South Africa is approaching 700, although the final number might never be be known.

Sisulu will visit South African National Defense Force rescuers and compatriots who have volunteered  to do para-medical and rescue work for NGOs 

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With tropical cyclone Idai expected to take landfall at Beira today, at least 120  people have died in Mozambique, Malawi and South Africa. Nearly a million have been displaced.

Mozambique is particularly prone to heavy rai  and flooding at this time of year.

800 people drowned in 2000 and  100 four years ago.

Heavy rain is forecast until at least the weekend.

The United Nations is calling for emergency assistance in both Mozambique and Malawi.

Gift Of The Givers is standing by to augment help expected from the South African National Defense Force with rescue boats, divers, aquatic rescue personnel, paramedics and medical teams.

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Former South African National  Defense Force Colonel William Endley will be deported to South Africa when he’s released later today.

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William Endley was sentenced to death in South Sudan last February for espionage and conspiring to overthrow the government of President Salva Kiir.

Endley was a military adviser to rebel leader Riek Machar who will once again become Kiir’s vice president in terms of the peace agreement celebrated in South Sudan yesterday.

Expressing her gratitude for the release, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu urges all South Africa working abroad to respect the laws of their host countries.

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Pretoria’s judge president Dunstan Mlambo says President Omar Al Bashir defiance of the court order is unconstitutional.
He’s given the State seven days to provide an affidavit explaining when, where and how Bashir got away.
The Southern African Litigation Centre, that brought the urgent action seeking Bashir’s detention, plans to initiate a private prosecution against the South African government for contempt of court.
Pikkie Greef, the general secretary of the South African National Defence Union says government must respond decisively to Sudan blackmailing South African troops in Darfur by threatening an act of war if their president was arrested in Johannesburg.
At Sudan’s insistence, the South African contingent is the most lightly armed in the United Nations/ African Union Mission in Darfur known as UNAMID.
Military analysts say South Africa should pull their peacekeepers out of Darfur – although this would be playing into Bashir’s hands

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He says he doesn’t want these middle men killed. He wants them jailed and giving information about the organised crime bosses they are working for.

Chris Bean makes a living collecting debts in Africa.

But in Boksburg today he’s representing a client who’s never paid him and never will: the rhino.

He was giving evidence to a specialist committee set up by the Department of Environmental Affairs to recommend the line South Africa should take on legalising the sale of rhino horn at the Conference on the International Trade in Endangered Species it’s hosting in Cape Town next year.

Bean maintains the international law governing hot pursuit entitles South Africa to chase poachers into Mozambique and to recover them to face justice here.

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