Roads have turned into rivers in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, as a top official said flooding had "escalated to extreme levels".

A deadly heatwave in West Africa and the Sahel was "impossible" without human-induced climate change, scientists say.

Nigerian socialite and businessman Cubana Chief Priest has become the latest local celebrity to be charged with abusing banknotes.

Emergency services have been rescuing passengers who were trapped in a bus that was swept away by floods on a busy highway in northern Kenya.

Eight members of a Ugandan music band have been arrested for complaining that the president's speech at the weekend was too long, local media report.

More than 90 people have died after a ferry sank off the north coast of Mozambique, local authorities say.

South Africa's ex-Speaker of Parliament Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has been charged with 12 counts of corruption and one count of money laundering.

Uganda's Constitutional Court has upheld the country's controversial anti-homosexuality law, which imposes life imprisonment and the death penalty on those involved in certain same-sex acts.

An eight-year-old girl, the only passenger who survived after a bus plunged off a bridge in South Africa, has left hospital and flown back to her home country.