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Sierra Leone's president on Wednesday fired his vice president, who was kicked out of their political party earlier this month on accusations of fomenting violence and trying to form a new party.
The three Mano River Union countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia are meeting in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown to map the way forward for the post Ebola reconstruction programme.
The EU sought ways to support peace talks in Libya as they enter a decisive phase but backed away from launching any security mission until stability returns to the country.
Rebels in northern Mali have rejected a preliminary peace deal after days of talks with grassroots supporters.
South African cabinet minister Collins Chabane and two security personnel were killed in a car crash on Sunday, President Jacob Zuma said.
An explosion damaged a police station in the center of Libya's capital, Tripoli, on Thursday, a witness said.
Britain said on Wednesday a military healthcare worker had tested positive for Ebola while working in Sierra Leone and airport officials there said the patient would be flown home overnight.
At least one masked gunman sprayed bullets in a nightclub popular with foreigners in Mali's capital, killing at least five people including a French person and a Belgian national.
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia Nicholas Kay has welcomed the interim ceasefire agreement between the government of Somalia and the moderate Islamist group Ahlu Sunna Wal Jamaa.
Three blasts hit the northeastern Nigerian town of Maiduguri on Saturday in the worst attack on the city since suspected Boko Haram militants failed in a bid to seize the state capital at the end of January.
Egypt on Saturday executed an Islamist convicted of murder in 2013 violence, the first death sentence carried out after the military's ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.
Liberia discharged the last confirmed Ebola patient on Thursday from a Chinese-run Ebola Treatment Unit.
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