SUDAN: Authorities have issued a “red alert” warning of potential floods in five provinces along the Nile River, citing rising water levels in its two main tributaries, the Blue and White Nile.

The Sudanese irrigation ministry issued the alert on Sunday and it remained in effect today. The ministry urged residents in Khartoum, River Nile, White Nile, Sennar and Blue Nile provinces to practice caution as floods may affect agricultural lands and houses.

PAKISTAN: Health officials reported two new polio cases in the southern province of Sindh today. This brings the total to 29 across the country since January, despite several immunisation drives.

Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan remain the only two countries where transmission of the wild polio virus has never been stopped, according to the World Health Organisation.

IRAN: The government announced today it had hanged a man accused of spying for Israel, the latest in the largest wave of executions by Tehran in decades.

Iran identified the executed man as Bahman Choobiasl. His case wasn’t immediately known in Iranian media reports or to activists monitoring the death penalty in the Islamic Republic.

NAMIBIA: Namibia has sent more than 500 soldiers to help battle a huge wildfire that has burned across 30 per cent of a major national park.

The office of President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said on Sunday that an unknown amount of wildlife has been killed in the fire, which started last Monday and has spread across the Etosha National Park in north Namibia.

The park is home to hundreds of species of wildlife, including critically endangered black rhinos.