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A large explosion has rocked a bus station in a northern region of Nigeria previously targeted by Boko Haram, witnesses said, in what appeared to be the latest crack in the government's purported ceasefire with the armed group.
The number of people with Ebola has almost to hit 10,000 in West Africa, the World Health Organization said, as the scramble to find a cure gathered pace.
Reeva Steenkamp's parents said Tuesday they are "satisfied" with the sentence handed down to their daughter's killer, as Oscar Pistorious started his first full day in a South African prison.
A doctor from the Democratic Republic of Congo has won Europe's top human rights prize for helping thousands of gang rape victims in the country.
The World Health Organisation is set to hold emergency talks to discuss the Ebola epidemic.
All travelers flying into the United States from the West African countries most impacted by the Ebola virus can only enter the U.S. through five airports, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced Tuesday.
Serum made from the blood of recovered Ebola patients could be available within weeks in Liberia, one of the countries worst hit by the virus, says the World Health Organization.
Vital supplies and resources to tackle Ebola are beginning to arrive in the three worst-hit West African countries, Ghana's President John Mahama has said.
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been jailed for five years for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says Ebola has brought her country to "a standstill" and that West Africa is at risk of losing an entire generation to the disease.
Nigeria has been declared officially free of Ebola after six weeks with no new cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
WHO representative Rui Gama Vaz, speaking in the capital Abuja, said it was a "spectacular success story".
The prosecution in the Oscar Pistorius case has scrutinised the athlete's charity work, on a second day of his sentencing hearing.
Liberian health officials are appealing to nurses and medical assistants not to go ahead with a national strike, as the Ebola epidemic continues.
The South African athlete Oscar Pistorius returns to court for sentencing after being convicted of killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Renowned Kenyan academic Ali Mazrui has died in the US aged 81 after being ill for several months.
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius should not go to jail over the killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, his sentencing hearing has been told.
Swaziland plans to pay girls about $18 a month for abstaining from sex, according to local reports.
The programme, reportedly approved by King Mswati III, is intended to reduce HIV transmission in a country with one of the highest HIV transmission rates in the world.
The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, calls for peace in Libya during a surprise visit to Tripoli as part of a UN-brokered reconciliation process.
![Nigerian soldiers display one of the captured Boko Haram armoured vehicles last September [EPA]](https://graphiconline.com/images/joomlart/article/68423ead25476e43541753dc73d7dc7b.jpg)
![Experts warn the rate of infections could reach 10,000 a week by early December [Reuters]](https://graphiconline.com/images/joomlart/article/41f0011d6479806f2d2b81b297e5193f.jpg)
