TANZANIA: Landslides triggered by heavy rainfall have killed at least 20 people in the country’s south in recent days, authorities said today.

Rainfall and high winds caused landslides that destroyed houses early on Wednesday in the Mbeya region, said Jaffar Haniu, administrator of the Rungwe district where the landslides happened.

COSTA RICA: The government said on Thursday that it would accept 25 migrants deported from the United States per week as part of an agreement to help the Trump administration’s policy of deporting immigrants to “third countries.” 

The Central American nation joins a growing number of governments across Africa and the Americas that have signed secretive agreements with the US to accept deportees from other countries.

UNITED STATES: California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom signed a Bill on Thursday to rename Cesar Chavez Day as Farmworkers Day in an effort to reconcile the Latino union organiser’s legacy with explosive sexual abuse allegations before the state holiday on March 31.

Clams became public last week that Mr Chavez had sexually abused girls and women during the day when he was building a major farmworkers’ union movement in California in the 1960s.

SLOVENIA: The country’s Sova intelligence agency has “unequivocally confirmed foreign influences” on last weekend’s parliamentary election.

The government said on Thursday that Sova had “presented concrete activities of a foreign para-intelligence agency as well as contacts with Slovenian entities.” It did not name the agency in question.

Sunday’s election ended with no clear winner. Prime Minister Robert Golob’s liberal Freedom Movement won 29 seats in the 90-member assembly, while the opposition right-wing Slovenian Democratic Party won 28.