Some Kenyan students in Kisumu county, close to the overflowing Lake Victoria, are forced to take a boat to school, only to find waterlogged classrooms and no teachers on site. Public schools have reopened in Kenya following a closure ordered by the government in March 2020 to curb the spread of Covid-19.

High levels of annual floodwater on the Nile River have threatened to engulf important archaeological sites north of Sudan's capital, Khartoum.