Record heatwave in Mali: 100 dead as mercury tops 48.5 degrees Celsius

More than a hundred people have died during a record-breaking heatwave in Mali in West Africa.
Temperatures in one town reached 48.5 degrees.
Meteorologists say that’s the hottest ever recorded on the continent.

Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith reports.

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