Medical services in Guinea are on alert after a man died from Lassa fever, health officials said on Thursday, with some 80 people being monitored for the deadly disease. Lassa fever is caused by a haemorrhagic virus which belongs to the same family as Marburg and Ebola. The virus was found in a 35-year-old man from the southwestern town of Ki ...

Swiss prosecutors said Thursday they were dropping charges of financial wrongdoing against Teodorin Obiang Nguema, the son of Equatorial Guinea's authoritarian leader, but were confiscating luxury cars as part of the case. Obiang, 50, and two other individuals had been facing prosecution for money laundering and misappropriation of public asset ...

Six suspects have been arrested over the killing of an investigative journalist in Ghana who helped to expose corruption in African football, police said on Thursday. Ahmed Hussein-Suale, part of a team that carried out an undercover investigation, was gunned down as he returned to his home in the Accra suburb of Madina on January 16. The sho ...

Hundreds of Sudanese protesters rallied Thursday in downtown Khartoum and other districts of the capital in support of fellow demonstrators detained in the weeks of rallies against President Omar al-Bashir 39;s iron-fisted rule, witnesses said. The latest protest came after Bashir acknowledged that Sudan 39;s controversial public order la ...

Several parties to the Central African Republic's peace accord have yet to sign the much-trumpeted deal, a minister said on Thursday. The accord was signed in the capital Bangui on Wednesday by militia leaders and President Faustin-Archange Touadera, but its contents have not been disclosed. You cannot publish a document until everyone has s ...

The head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has publicly acknowledged the persistent problem of sexual abuse of nuns by priests. His admission, aboard the papal plane returning from to Rome from a trip to the United Arab Emirates, is the first time the Church has confirmed such abuse. The Pope 39;s acknowledgement came only after he was ...