Congo's Ebola outbreak has claimed at least 2,000 lives as it has become the fastest-growing on record. Government data shows 4,381 confirmed cases, with 2,011 deaths.
The U.N. General Assembly’s resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations is being welcomed across Africa.
The United States airstrikes targeting militants affiliated with the Islamic State group in northwestern Nigeria are a major escalation of an offensive that Nigeria’s overstretched military has struggled with for years.
Guinea-Bissau has begun counting votes as President Umaro Sissoco Embaló seeks a second term. Embaló, a former army general, faces a tight race against Fernando Dias da Costa, analysts say.