Top Stories: German NGO rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 was busy with more migrant rescues on Monday. The ship is now carrying 263 migrants on board and "urgently" seeking a port of safety, according to the head of mission of German NGO.The humanitarian ship was one of two rescue ships that pulled 394 migrants from a dangerously overcrowded wooden boat in the Mediterranean overnight on Sunday in an operation lasting about six hours. Experts say South Africa is seeing growing drug addiction among young people during the pandemic. A medical research center found that some teenagers are abusing cough syrup that contains the drug codeine. Nigeria has been hit by a surge in cholera cases in recent weeks, focused on the country's north and adding to a public health crisis accompanied by a rise in COVID-19 cases. The state epidemiologist and deputy director of public health for northern economic hub Kano State, told Reuters that the rainy season was making it worse, while insecurity in the north, where the authorities have been battling Islamist militants and armed criminals, was also hindering the authorities' ability to respond. An exhibition that opened Thursday in the Kenyan capital aims to shed light on a long list of cases in which Kenyan police are accused of extra-judicial killings. Madagascar has arrested 21 more suspects, including 12 military personnel, in connection with a plot to kill President Andry Rajoelina and topple the government, according to a senior prosecutor. Six people, one of them a French citizen, were arrested last month on suspicion of involvement in the plot, following what officials described as a months-long investigation in the Indian Ocean island. Recent unrest in South Africa damaged hundreds of businesses but property developers, retailers, and entrepreneurs say they remain committed to the fast-growing consumer markets of its predominantly black townships. The International Committee Of The Red Cross is warning that a growing climate crisis combined with conflict is pushing herders in Somalia to abandon their way of life. Some Nigerian companies are using coconut and palm shells to make charcoal briquettes in an effort to slow ongoing deforestation. Nigeria banned charcoal exports after a World Bank report showed the country lost nearly half its forest cover in just a decade. With the delta variant of the coronavirus spreading in the United States, officials are instituting new mask guidance and some employers and even restaurants are requiring proof of vaccination. President Joe Biden says that all federal employees will now have to attest to their COVID-19 vaccination status, and those who are unvaccinated will face numerous restrictions. This comes as major U.S. businesses require employee vaccinations, and as U.S. health experts urge even the vaccinated to mask up again due to the virulent delta variant, now the most prevalent in the United States