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Passengers arriving at Lagos airport queue for temperature checks as Nigeria steps up health screening protocols for international arrivals. The country confirmed its first case of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola earlier this week in a woman returning from Uganda.
It says amid strengthening El Niño conditions, familes already struggling with repeated displacement, have little left to fall back on.
The two were kidnapped in separate incidents in Niger, where they were involved in education and development initiatives, more than a year and a half ago.
Hundreds of Ethiopians crossed into Kenya on Thursday as gunfire and chaotic scenes were reported in the border town of Moyale, police said.
Muhammad Ali Pate urged the public to 'remain calm' described the case as a single contained infection.
Heated exchanges and chaotic scenes gripped Albania's parliament in Tirana on Thursday as rival MPs clashed inside, while student demonstrators continued their protests outside for a tenth day.
Towering waves crashed against Taiwan's coastline as Typhoon Champi swept past the island on Friday, leaving one person dead, 94 injured and hundreds of flights cancelled.
A court in Abidjan has postponed a hearing on the election of Tidjane Thiam as president of the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast.
The leader of Ethiopia’s rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front says the northern state is still at war. In a message aired on Tigrayan television on Wednesday, Debretsion Gebremichael said the TPLF is continuing to fight federal forces in the region and will “remain a graveyard for its enemies.”
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Officials say they both travelled through Entebbe International Airport on 3 October.
The World Health Organization’s Africa chief warned that the continent is facing a “complex” Ebola outbreak, after the first case of the virus was reported in Nigeria.
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk says the multiple attacks may amount to war crimes.
A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Baqen County in Nagqu, in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, at 10.33 pm on Thursday 22 October, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
They are among six refugee athletes taking part in Youth Olympic Games which get underway in Dakar on 31 October.
It said the weather system was a 'wrecking ball' that would bring havoc to Latin America, eastern and southern Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.
Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty on Thursday said all options must be explored to find a political solution between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis.
The attack on the unidentified victim follows a wave of anti-migrants protests in South Africa this year.
Tourists flocked to the Abu Simbel temple in Egypt on Thursday to witness a rare astronomical ceremony that has been taking place for thousands of years.
Facing US sanctions, the International Criminal Court was on Thursday awarded the European Union's top rights prize, the Sakharov prize, in a show of support that risks upsetting President Donald Trump.
Art Basel Paris brings international galleries and contemporary artists to the Grand Palais. But following violent protests in the capital, organisers have stepped up security around the prestigious art fair.
