 South Africa's local KwaZulu Natal government is worried about environmental impact of chemicals destroyed during prozuma riots earlier this month. A government official has described the chemicals as highly hazardous. Authorities say the damage cost is quite considerable and going to take time to deal with completely. On Friday, the government said around 1,600 chemicals were stored at a warehouse when it was raised last week. And the parents of thousands of Ethiopian students stranded in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigri are appealing for help to evacuate them. Their pleas come in after the main university warned it could not feed them much longer. Amid food and money shortages, Mekala University gets its budget from the federal government and just recently posted a notice that its bank accounts have been blocked. The northern Tigri region is currently war-ravaged with government forces involved in a brutal fight with separatists.