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Gunmen shot dead a journalist in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, the third killed in Somalia this year, a colleague and the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) said.
A Cuban doctor treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone has tested positive for the disease and was being sent to Geneva for treatment, officials said, the first Cuban known to have contracted the potentially deadly haemorrhagic fever.
The UN Security Council on Monday welcomed the signing of a Charter for the Transition in Burkina Faso, and called on all the stakeholders in the West African country to "facilitate the commencement of the work of the transitional organs without delay."
The special representative of the UN secretary-general for Ebola emergency response has been found dead in his hotel room in the Guinean capital of Conakry, a Rwandan official said late Monday in Kigali.
The Chinese Embassy in Burundi has branded a media report claiming it had conducted illegal ivory trade in Africa as "unreal and baseless".
The Egyptian police arrested on Friday tens of supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi over anti-government protests and inciting violence, according to official MENA news agency.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Thursday announced the lifting of the State of Emergency with immediate effect.
A 25-year-old nurse who was Mali's second Ebola case has died, the government said in a statement on Wednesday.
Prosecutors say they have filed appeal papers against the verdict and sentence in the Oscar Pistorius case.
A doctor in Sierra Leone has died of Ebola - the fifth local doctor in the West African nation to die of the disease, authorities said Monday.
Gunmen armed with dynamites and high- power firearms on late Sunday stormed a prison in Nigeria's north central Kogi State and freed 50 inmates at the facility.
The Chinese embassy in Somalia on Sunday donated $20,000 to Somalia in an effort to assistant the draught-affected people in the country
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