March 30 () - Rio Tinto said on Monday operations at three of its four Pilbara ‌iron ore port terminals have resumed after ‌Tropical Cyclone Narelle swept through Western Australia's Pilbara region, disrupting shipments ​but leaving its annual guidance unchanged. Cyclone Narelle brought heavy rain and power outages to Australia's northeast coast earlier this month, forcing the miner to temporarily shut ‌two bauxite mines.

Some raindrops have fallen in the drought-ridden Turkana region in northern Kenya in recent days. But will the water keep coming, feeding the livestock of the nomadic communities and the fields of local farmers? Or will it be, once again, too little too late, resulting in hunger and loss of livelihood? A group of elders has gathered in the bush, sitting under a thorny acacia tree.

New data suggests an eruption cooled Europe, disrupted harvests and pushed Italian states into grain trades that may have begun one of history’s deadliest pandemics.