Africa

  1. Uganda shuts border with DRC with immediate effect as Ebola outbreak intensifies

  2. US picks Kenya for its Ebola quarantine and treatment facility plan

  3. WHO urges ceasefire in Congo to contain Ebola as cases surge

  4. Ghanaians repatriated from South Africa after anti-immigrant protests

  1. Trump raises refugee ceiling by 10,000 to bring in more white South Africans

  2. Senegal's ousted prime minister Sonko elected parliament speaker

  3. Ebola patients flee in attacks on Congo health facilities, hobbling response

  4. Iran war poses new threat to harvests in hunger-stricken Sudan

  5. Senegal's parliament speaker quits two days after prime minister sacked

  6. Uganda confirms three new Ebola cases, bringing total to five

  1. Red Cross mourns death of three volunteers from Ebola in Congo

  2. Senegal president sacks PM Sonko, dissolves government after months of friction

  3. Dangote refinery powers Nigeria to first credit upgrade in 14 years

  4. WHO raises risk of Ebola outbreak in Congo to 'very high' at national level

  5. Inside an African lab that helped crack the hantavirus outbreak

  6. Eswatini quickly embraced Trump's deportee program despite doubts over legality