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Sierra Leone has lost a fourth doctor to Ebola after a failed effort to transfer her abroad for medical treatment, a government official said Sunday, a huge setback to the impoverished country that is battling the virulent disease amid a shortage of health care workers.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has sacked 10 government officials who have been "out of the country without an excuse," amid a national Ebola crisis.
TB Joshua, one of Nigeria's best known preachers, has linked a small plane circling over a church guesthouse in Lagos to its subsequent collapse.
The South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of manslaughter (culpable homicide) in his killing of girlfriend Reeva Rebecca Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year.
The judge in the Oscar Pistorius trial has ruled out murder charges, but has left it to Friday to announce whether he is guilty of culpable homicide.
Oscar Pistorius cannot be found guilty of intentionally killing Reevan Steenkamp, the judge in his trial said Thursday. The judge has not issued a verdict, and the proceedings continue. Pistorius faces other possible verdicts, including culpable homicide.
Police suspect that youths who heckled speakers during President Kenyatta’s rally in Migori could have been hired by a local politician.
Oscar Pistorius will discover his fate on Thursday, following a five-month murder trial. The double-amputee Olympic athlete denies intentionally shooting dead Reeva Steenkamp in the toilet of his home in the early hours of Valentine's Day last year, saying he mistook his girlfriend for an intruder.
African champions Nigeria look to have avoided an international ban as a row over the leadership of its football federation seems to have ended.
Sierra Leone - one of the countries worst hit by West Africa's Ebola outbreak - has announced a three-day lockdown to try to tackle the disease.
ABUJA — The United States of America warned yesterday that the reputation of Nigeria’s military was at stake while the future of the country and her children was in jeopardy following the capture of some towns in the north eastern part of the country in the last few weeks by Boko Haram terrorists.
LAGOS — The first confirmed Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, case that was also one of the three persons quarantined in Oduoha, Emohua Local Government Area, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has died of the disease.
A Form Four student has given birth to triplets at the Nyamira County referral hospital in Kenya.
A newly released video shows health workers in Liberia attempting to capture a suspected Ebola patient, who had allegedly escaped from a treatment centre on Sept. 1.
Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram has seized the key north-eastern town of Bama after fierce fighting with government forces, residents say.
Liberia's president is ordering most civil servants to stay home another month in an effort to stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus ravaging the country.
Military units in Lesotho have surrounded government and police buildings and gunfire has been heard in the small mountainous southern African kingdom.
Kenya’s top detectives are on the trail of a gang that carjacked a police officer linked to State House identified as David Machui in Ruai, Nairobi, on Wednesday night.