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Congo Ebola contact tracing is below target but has improved, WHO says
Efforts to trace contacts in the Democratic Republic of Congo to try to contain the country's Ebola outbreak have improved...
Read moreDetailsKenyan police crack down on protest against US Ebola quarantine facility
Kenyan police fired tear gas and water cannon on Tuesday at hundreds of protesters demonstrating against a quarantine centre, for Americans exposed...
Read moreDetailsDozens kidnapped in northwest Nigeria after bandits invite them to talks
Armed bandits in northwest Nigeria abducted dozens of villagers whom they invited to a meeting about potential peace negotiations, authorities...
Read moreDetailsSomali soccer referee denied US entry, will miss World Cup debut
The United States has denied entry to soccer referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, who had been expected to be the first...
Read moreDetailsDR Congo court sentences 54 to death in final verdict on murder of UN experts
Nearly nine years after the killing of two United Nations experts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's High...
Read moreDetailsSouth Africa’s President Ramaphosa moves to diffuse anti-immigrant tensions in TV address
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa moved to diffuse growing anti-immigrant tensions on Sunday with a speech on national television. The...
Read moreDetailsDR Congo says number of confirmed Ebola cases rises to 515
Democratic Republic of Congo said on Sunday that the number of confirmed Ebola cases had increased to 515 after 27...
Read moreDetailsMauritius has not received US proposal on Chagos Islands
Mauritius said on Monday that it had not received any proposal from the Trump administration on the Chagos Islands, after...
Read moreDetailsMost US deportees to DRC returned to home countries, Kinshasa says
More than half of a group of South American migrants deported by the United States to Kinshasa have now left...
Read moreDetailsFrench national gets 20 years in Mali over alleged destabilisation plot
A French national accused by Mali's military-led government of involvement in a plot to destabilise the country last year has...
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