Africa
Guinea confirms deadly mystery epidemic as Ebola
Guinea identified the Ebola virus Saturday as the source of a highly contagious epidemic raging through its southern forests, as the death ...US navy hands over seized oil tanker to Libya
U.S. forces have handed possession of a tanker carrying an illegal oil shipment back to the Libyan government, the U.S. Embassy in ...Nigerian stampedes for government jobs kill at least 16 across country
Officials and activists say at least 16 people died in stampedes when a half million people were invited to apply for fewer ...France sentences Rwandan ex-soldier for genocide role
A court in France has delivered the country\'s first ever conviction for genocide, sentencing a former Rwandan soldier to 25 years in ...East African states to send troops to monitor South Sudan ceasefire
East African countries have agreed to send troops to South Sudan, to help enforce a shaky cease-fire deal between government and rebel ...Sierra Leone war-time leader Ahmad Tejan Kabbah dies
Sierra Leone\'s former president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, who is widely credited with ending an 11-year civil war, has died after a long ...Ousted Libyan PM flees to Europe despite travel ban
Libya\'s former Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has left the country despite a travel ban, reports say.UN says tens of thousands flee fighting in Darfur
The United Nations says attacks in Sudan\'s long-troubled Darfur region have forced more than 45,000 people to flee their homes.42 African migrants drown off Yemen coast
Forty-two African migrants have drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, according to officials.Climate change could mean more malaria in Africa, South America
British and American researchers predict that global warming could mean the spread of the deadly disease malaria to places where it is ...