El Niño health prep: Kenya’s El Niño-linked flood risk is pushing stepped-up disease surveillance, safe-water checks, and medicine stockpiles, with county health teams told to protect water sources and distribution systems. Weather disruption in South Africa: A cut-off low is driving severe storms, hail, lightning and damaging winds across provinces, while eThekwini warns of up to 80km/h gusts that could disrupt ports, small harbours and coastal safety. Water and sanitation accountability: The Witness’ reporting is keeping pressure on Pietermaritzburg over water shortages, sewage spillages and failing infrastructure, with the SA Human Rights Commission now investigating. Irrigation for climate resilience: At Rwanda’s Africa Food Systems Forum, officials urged scaling irrigation because most farming depends on rainfall and El Niño drought could worsen hunger. Petroleum governance cooperation: Ghana and Uganda are sharing lessons on upstream petroleum regulation, local content and health, safety and environmental standards. Rare earth push: Victory Metals secured a mining lease for its North Stanmore heavy rare earth project, clearing a key step toward development. AI-ready infrastructure: Submer and Edgecore signed an MoU to expand AI-ready data centre infrastructure across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa.