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France confirms first Ebola case in doctor who had worked in DRC | France

The first case of Ebola has been confirmed in France, the country’s health ministry has said, in a doctor who had returned from a...

Play puts spotlight on Kenya’s crisis of gender-based violence | Kenya

There are audible gasps in the auditorium in Nairobi as a husband launches a volley of blows and slaps on his wife and pushes...

Kenyan minister orders halt to construction of US Ebola facility | Ebola

Kenya’s health minister told a court he had ordered preparations for a US-run Ebola quarantine facility to stop, after being held in contempt for...

Mother of jailed British-Egyptian activist hospitalised after 242 days on hunger strike | Foreign policy

The mother of the imprisoned British-Egyptian human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been admitted to hospital after spending more than 240 days on...

Sidi Ould Tah named African Development Bank president | Global development

The African Development Bank has chosen the Mauritanian economist Sidi Ould Tah as its president-elect after three rounds of voting on Thursday afternoon.The election...

South African woman sentenced to life for selling six-year-old daughter | South Africa

A South African woman and two accomplices were sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for trafficking her then six-year-old daughter, in a case that...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87 | Ngugi wa Thiong’o

The Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who was censored, imprisoned and forced into exile by the dictator Daniel arap Moi, a perennial contender for...

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