Africa

Insufficient contact-tracing and the refusal of many residents to avoid contact with the bodies of loved ones killed by the Ebola virus are accelerating the epidemic.

Officials warn the fact at least 30 people have died at a displacement camp in north-eastern Congo suggests an Ebola outbreak may be spreading fast.

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo say an armed group has removed a woman and her daughter from an Ebola health centre in the country's east.

The Democratic ​Republic of ‌the Congo has reported nearly 800 cases of the rare strain of Ebola, while more 180 people have died.

The World Health Organisation says three laboratories in the Democratic Republic of Congo ‌have run out of supplies to test for the Bundibugyo species of Ebola.

Flames have ripped through a dormitory at a girls' boarding school, killing at least 16 students and injuring scores of others.

‘We are trying to catch up, it is a race against the clock.’

The World Health Organisation has declared a ‘public health emergency of international concern’ amid an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has now spread across borders.

An Ebola outbreak has struck Democratic Republic of Congo, with 65 deaths recorded, Africa's top public health body says.

The cruise ship carrying a deadly rat virus outbreak will be able to sail on to Spain’s Canary Islands after the evacuation of two seriously ill passengers. 

Police believe the remains belong to a 59-year-old businessman who was swept away by floodwaters.

A man has been taken into custody after four children died after being attacked with a machete in a nursery school in the capital of Uganda.

​Drones have become a key ‌weapon used by both sides in the war between Sudan's army and the Rapid Support Forces that began in April 2023.

The case was brought to the World Court by a country not directly affected by the alleged genocide of the Rohingya, a precedent for similar claims against other countries, including Israel.

Terrifying footage shows four men gripping onto a boat teetering on the edge of a huge dam spillway.

Benin’s President has condemned an attempted coup that was foiled by the country’s army in his first public comments since sporadic gunfire was heard in parts of the country’s capital.

Officials in northern Ethiopia say a volcano, which has no previous record of eruption, has sent ash plumes across the Red Sea.

Paramilitary fighters with the RSF overran the city of el-Fasher, the Sudanese military’s last stronghold, killing and detaining hundreds of people.