Insecurity in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo continues to hamper efforts to fight Ebola as the number of the cases reaches 1,029 people, the World Health Organisation 39;s Africa director has told RFI. Continued attacks by armed groups are curtailing efforts to control the spread of the disease, potentially dragging out the epidemic ...

French finance minister Bruno Lemaire met with his counterparts from the 14-strong CFA bloc in the Niger capital Niamey on Thursday to discuss the health of the CFA franc, amid growing calls for the currency to be scrapped. Critics say the CFA franc is a relic of colonialism, whilst France maintains that the mechanism guarantees stability. ...

A Nigerian judge on Thursday said the treason trial of a pro-Biafran leader will go on without him, after he disappeared for more than a year before re-emerging in Israel and Britain. Nnamdi Kanu, who heads the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement, was arrested in October 2015 after calling for a separate homeland for the Igbo people ...

One of the world 39;s poorest countries, the Indian Ocean island nation of the Comoros has endured years of political turmoil including a spate of coups. Here is some background on the country, where gunfire erupted near a military barracks in the capital Moroni on Thursday after the arrest of a defeated presidential candidate. Incumbe ...

When Charles Immanuel Akhimien was a medical student he was shocked to learn that a former classmate had died from a back-alley abortion. The brilliant young woman 39;s life may have been spared if she had the kind of apps that are available today that discreetly inform young people about sex, Akhimien said. When it comes to contracep ...

Gunfire rocked the Comoran capital Thursday after police arrested a defeated presidential hopeful who was named head of an opposition transitional authority hoping to unseat President Azali Assoumani. An aide confirmed the arrest of former military colonel Soilihi Mohamed who came third in Sunday 39;s poll which the opposition said was rig ...

Police in Comoros arrested defeated presidential hopeful Soilihi Mohamed on Thursday, a campaign official told AFP, as officers also broke up a women 39;s protest march arresting 12 demonstrators. Campaign official Kamal Eddin Sindou confirmed the arrest of Mohamed, who was named on Wednesday as the head of an opposition coalition to chall ...

Police in Comoros arrested 12 women on Thursday, activists said, after they took to the streets to protest the re-election of President Azali Assoumani in polls they say were rigged. The opposition has flatly rejected Azali 39;s victory with 60.77 percent of the vote in Sunday 39;s polls as the angry mood threatened to spark a new politic ...

A tanker that was hijacked by migrants off Libya docked in Malta on Thursday after the Maltese armed forces took control of the vessel. The Palau-flagged tanker Elhiblu I had picked up the 108 migrants including women and children on Tuesday evening and then headed back to Tripoli. But six nautical miles from port the ship suddenly chan ...

Italian prosecutors have lifted a block on a boat that rescued 49 migrants off the Libyan coast and brought them to Italy in mid-March, the collective operating it announced Wednesday. Happy to announce that the Mare Jonio is free, the Mediterranea collective of aid groups announced. Prosecutors in Agrigento, on the southern island of Sicil ...