Ugandan authorities partially restored internet services late on Saturday after 81-year-old President Yoweri Museveni won a seventh term to extend his rule into a fifth decade with a landslide victory rejected by the opposition.

The South African (SA) Local Government Association (Salga) has urged the government to fast‑track efforts to modernise the country’s Disaster Management Framework, warning that increasingly severe climate‑related disasters are overwhelming municipalities and endangering communities.

United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has issued a stark warning that Sudan is collapsing into “an abyss of unimaginable dimensions”.