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State of emergency begins in Egypt's Sinai today

A three-month state of emergency in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, begins today.

Concerns in US over White House security after Nigerian scaled fence

WASHINGTON(AFP) - For once, the debate gripping Washington is not about party politics.

WHO working hard for Ebola vaccines by next June

Hundreds of thousands of Ebola vaccine doses could be rolled out to West Africa by…

Nyuti wins Mozambique's election

Mozambique's ruling Frelimo party and its candidate Filipe Nyusi won this month's presidential and legislative…

Petrobas kickback report makes Brazil's Rousseff fuming

Just days before Brazil's presidential election run-off, rightwing news magazine Veja on Friday accused President…

Chad confident Boko Haram will release Chibok schoolgirls: Reuters

Chad said it believed Nigeria's secret deal with Boko Haram Islamists to free more than…

Liberia's Ebola could kill 90,000 by December, scientists warn

Efforts to control the Ebola virus in Liberia must be quickly and dramatically scaled up…

Zambia Independence Day tragedy: 24 people, including schoolchildren drown

At least 20 people, mainly schoolchildren, are believed to have died in Zambia after a…

Girl dies in Mali's first Ebola case

A two-year-old girl died of Ebola in Mali on Friday, in the first case of…

Global food wastes enough to feed 2 billion people yearly

The UN says the world wastes enough food to feed an estimated two billion people,…