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(CNN) -- One hundred thirty new cases of Ebola were identified during a three-day lockdown in Sierra Leone, Stephen Gaojia, the country's head of emergency operations, said Monday.

Following the several defeats Boko Haram terrorists suffered in the hands of Special Forces of the Nigerian military, some of the insurgents have surrendered to the Nigerian armed forces even as some of them who were captured during encounters were said to be giving useful information to the troops.

Business in Nairobi and Mombasa was disrupted for the better part of Friday as university students protested over the delay in disbursing Higher Education Loans Board (Helb) funds.

A frustrated 35-year-old man, Maimako Shepang has been cooling his feet in Plateau State police custody after he was apprehended for allegedly selling off his wife to ritualists.

 Officials in Guinea searching for a team of health workers and journalists who went missing while trying to raise awareness of Ebola have found several bodies.

 Kano, Nigeria - Suspected Boko Haram fighters have stormed a teacher training college in the north of the country, killing at least 15 people in a shoot-out and explosions. 

As hospitals in nations hardest hit by Ebola struggle to keep up, desperate patients are turning to the black market to buy blood from survivors of the virus, the World Health Organization warned.

A 45-year-old-woman on Tuesday walked out alive from the rubble of the collapsed building at the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in Ikotun, Lagos, a rescue worker has said.

Sierra Leone parliamentarians are threatening to take drastic action against the media over coverage of use of funds allocated to fight the Ebola epidemic.

Four police officers were killed on Tuesday night by a speeding saloon car five kilometres from Emali shopping centre along Mombasa Highway.

The Military Court Martial  on Tuesday morning sentenced 12 soldiers to death.

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.