Violence has erupted in eastern DR Congo’s Ituri province after tensions linked to the handling of victims of the latest Ebola outbreak sparked unrest.
Protesters in the town of Rwampara wanted to recover the bodies of relatives who died of Ebola to bury them. When they were denied, they set the hospital on fire, according to local reports.
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Elon Musk’s social media network X has been fined A$650,000 after admitting it failed to provide information about how it was tackling online child abuse material.
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An American doctor who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been flown to Germany for treatment, along his wife and four children, as the World Health Organization warned of the “scale and speed” of the outbreak.
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A nurse faces being struck off the nursing order after “deeply unpleasant” remarks about Jewish patients being tight with money, a tribunal ruled.
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Togo has announced a major shift in its travel policy, granting visa-free entry to all African nationals in a move aimed at boosting regional integration and cross-border movement across the continent.
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Ian Wright’s early life is being turned into a film produced by rapper Stormzy’s #Merky film company. The ex-Arsenal and England international, only turned professional in his early 20s, going on to become one of Arsenal’s top scorers.
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South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has refused to resign over a “cash-in-sofa scandal” that continues to haunt his presidency.
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The head of the World Health Organization has told countries to prepare for more hantavirus cases as authorities in Paris said a French woman who contracted the virus onboard the cruise ship MV Hondius had the most severe form of the disease and had been put on a ventilator.
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President Yoweri Museveni, 81, has been sworn in for a record seventh consecutive term following his landslide victory in disputed elections in January, extending his tenure as one of Africa’s longest-serving rulers.
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Standing at 1.3 meters tall, a humanoid robot was the cynosure of all eyes at a special refuge ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Jogye, downtown Seoul on Wednesday as he received the Dharma name “Gabi” during the ceremony conducted by South Korea’s largest Buddhist order, the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, ahead of official celebrations for the birth anniversary of the Buddha on 24 May.
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