Africa

A health worker is sprayed with chlorine after visiting the isolation ward at Bikoro hospital, which received a new suspected Ebola case, in Bikoro, Democratic Republic of Congo May 12, …

FILE PHOTO: A Police officer stands guard after a filling station was looted by protesters in Mahikeng, North West Province, South Africa‘s national government is taking over the running of …

Julius Maada Bio (left) takes the oath of office as new president of Sierra Leone on 4 April 2018 in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Picture: AFP Sierra Leone’s new President Julius …

At least 26 people were killed and seven others wounded in an attack in Burundi’s north western province of Cibitoke late on Friday, less than a week before a constitutional …

Madagascar president Hery Rajaonarimampianina Madagascar’s president approved a new election law lifting a provision that would have prevented the main opposition candidate from standing for office, which had provoked a political …

Military officers drain water from an adjacent dam after another dam burst its walls, overrunning nearby homes, in Solai town near Nakuru, Kenya May 11, 2018. REUTERS/Jackson Njehia A dam …

Ex-army chief and opposition presidential candidate Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko A court in Congo Republic sentenced ex-army chief and opposition presidential candidate Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko to 20 years in prison on …

A peacekeeper serving in the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) and a Congolese soldier stand guard as residents gather following demonstrations in …

File Photo: Tourists follow park wardens as they track mountain gorillas in Virunga national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, near the border town of Bunagana October 21, 2012. …

The main hospital in Democratic Republic of Congo’s northwestern town of Bikoro has received a new suspected Ebola case, the hospital’s director told Reuters on Friday. Bikoro is the nearest …