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Kinshasa: The Ministry of Health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced on Saturday a spike in the number of confirmed Ebola...

Accra, Ghana: Ghana said Saturday it has formally lodged a protest over Canada's refusal to issue a visa for the World Cup to...

Kampala: Uganda has criticised air travel restrictions imposed by countries including the United States over an Ebola outbreak which has spilt over from...

Addis Ababa: The Ebola outbreak in Uganda is "under control", the African Union's health agency said Thursday, praising its contact-tracing efforts. The World...

Johannesburg: Gunmen stormed an informal settlement near Johannesburg and shot dead 12 people overnight, South African police said Wednesday. It was the latest...

Geneva: The head of the World Health Organization on Monday was in Uganda, where a deadly Ebola outbreak has killed two people after...

Geneva: The head of the World Health Organization on Monday visited Uganda, where a deadly Ebola outbreak has killed two people after spreading...

Maiduguri, Nigeria: Boko Haram has freed more than 400 people kidnapped earlier this year from a village in the northeastern state of Borno,...

Geneva: The WHO and the African Union's public health agency launched a $518-million joint plan on Friday to tackle the Ebola outbreak causing...

Lagos: Nigeria said Friday, June 5, 2026, it planned to repatriate more than 1,000 of its nationals from South Africa as anti-immigrant tensions...

Geneva: The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that the Ebola outbreak confirmed to have killed 359 people in central Africa had a "big...

Kampala, Uganda: Uganda has confirmed six new cases of Ebola, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the ongoing outbreak to 15,...

Accra, Ghana: Another group of West Africans has been sent to Ghana by the United States, including at least one with deportation protections,...

Kinshasa: UN health chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus landed on Saturday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo province worst-hit by a severe Ebola...

Nairobi: A Kenyan court temporarily halted the opening of an Ebola quarantine centre for US nationals on Friday following a petition filed by...

Nairobi: Kenyan police on Friday said eight students had been arrested over a suspected arson attack at a girls' school that killed 16...

Washington, United States: An Ebola quarantine center for US nationals will open Friday in Kenya, US officials said, defending Washington's criticized decision not...

Antananarivo, Madagascar: Madagascar's top court on Thursday dismissed an opposition lawmaker's attempt to oust the country's military ruler, ruling that the challenge fell...