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Displaced CAR Muslims in dire straits

UNHCR says hundreds of people trapped in Yaloke town risk death if they are not evacuated to safety urgently.

AFRICA

Roots of CAR's devastating religious conflict

DRC war across river CAR

Report: Uprooted Muslims trapped in CAR

Gambia arrests three men for homosexuality	Dozens killed in Nigeria bomb blasts	Kenya tells US to back off over 'terror' law	Tensions simmer in protest-hit Gabon capital

Gambia arrests three men for homosexuality

Dozens killed in Nigeria bomb blasts

Kenya tells US to back off over 'terror' law

Tensions simmer in protest-hit Gabon capital

SPECIAL FOCUS: EBOLA

'We got this, Bob Geldof, so back off'

As Western stars re-release 1980s charity hit, many Africans say it's a demeaning relic that can do more harm than good.

By Barry Malone
US to screen Mali travellers for Ebola

Washington adds Mali to list of countries whose travellers get special Ebola screening when entering US.
UN Ebola effort faces 'information challenge'

Top Ebola official says trouble figuring out new infection cases in West Africa makes controlling outbreak difficult.
Obama seeks support for Ebola health workers

Without criticising policy of isolation, US president says nothing should be done to discourage health workers.
Liberian women hit back against Ebola stigma

Shoana Solomon, fed up of discrimination, tells Al Jazeera the story behind their viral social media campaign.

By Priyanka Gupta
Australia: No immigration from Ebola nations

Temporary visa restriction targets immigrants from West African countries hit by the deadly outbreak.
Cuba's war on Ebola

With free universal health care, Cuba has already racked up impressive medical achievements - why not take on the globe?

By Belen Fernandez
WHO: Ebola outbreak cases pass 10,000

UN agency says virus killed 4,922 people and is now also threatening Ivory Coast's border area with Guinea and Liberia.
How could serum help in fight against Ebola?

WHO says serum based on antibodies from blood of Ebola survivors could be used in Liberia within weeks.

By Tarek Bazley
Football coach’s fight against Ebola

Former Sierra Leone coach, 29, opts against fleeing the country in order to manage a youth academy.

By Simon Austin
Nigeria to be declared free of Ebola virus

According to WHO rules, a country can be declared free of Ebola after six weeks without any new cases.
Guinea residents 'refusing' Ebola treatment

Residents say people frightened to go to clinics because of conspiracy theories that they will be killed by doctors.
Cuba sends 300 more doctors to fight Ebola

Cuban government's pledge comes as European health experts urge their governments to ramp up relief efforts in region.
Ebola-hit Sierra Leone city crying for help

Few health facilities exist in Makeni where patients with the deadly virus are suffering without medical attention.

By Ashley Hamer
Ebola cases could reach 1.4m next year

New report suggests Ebola cases could rise in the coming months if urgent measures are not taken to curb the outbreak.
Liberia fears Ebola crisis will spark war

Liberian minister says Ebola is fast turning into a political nightmare as region heaves under unprecedented crisis.
Ebola 'contained in Senegal and Nigeria'

UN health agency says Ebola outbreak "pretty much contained" in Senegal and Nigeria.
Senegal gold miners hit by Ebola measures

Thousands of miners stranded as government imposes trade restrictions to contain Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
In Pictures: Sierra Leone's Ebola survivors

Survivors of the disease are often stigmatised after they return to their communities.

By Ashley Hamer
Sierra Leone economy hit by Ebola travel ban

Traders and farmers struggle to cope as restrictions on travel prevent them from doing business and attending to crops.

By Ashley Hamer
Liberia sacks officials over Ebola fight

President Sirleaf dismisses 10 officials for abandoning fight against Ebola, as WHO warns of disease spreading.
Ebola hospital workers walk out over pay

Staff at major district hospital in Sierra Leone say they have not been paid for two weeks despite huge risk involved.

By Ashley Hamer
Guinea woman pays price for Ebola rumour

Woman in labour from Ebola-hit Guinea abandoned by doctors at S African hospital amid rumours she had deadly virus.

By Candice Bailey
Sierra Leone to impose Ebola curfew

Citizens confined to their homes for three days from September 18 "to deal with the spread of Ebola once and for all".
Guinea bears brunt of West Africa Ebola havoc

Guinea companies, expatriates, investors and tourists are fleeing Ebola with no immediate plans of returning.

By Kingsley Kobo
New clinic key to Sierra Leone's Ebola fight

Red Cross facility near eastern city of Kenema set to admit first patients, relieving pressure on government hospital.

By Ashley Hamer
Ebola economics

We look at how the epidemic is laying waste to the financial stability of the affected African nations.

By Counting the Cost
Ebola for dummies: Bridging the health worker gap

In Brussels, NGO staff are being trained to fill the shortfall of field workers in West Africa.

By Lisa De Bode
Infographic: Just how deadly is Ebola?

Compared to other diseases, Ebola is not especially contagious - but has a far higher fatality rate and no proven cure.

By Sam Bollier andMohammed Haddad
Sierra Leone capital now in grip of Ebola

State of emergency declared in West African nation as virus which has killed hundreds spreads to Freetown.

By Tommy Trenchard
Mapping the world's worst Ebola epidemic

More than 2,600 people in West Africa have been killed by the virus, for which there is no known cure.
Ebola: What hope for a cure?

There is no cure for Ebola, which has killed nearly 2,000 people in west Africa, but several drugs are under development

By Tarek Bazley
Experts: Give new US Ebola drug to Africans

World's top Ebola specialists question why only US aid workers given experimental drug, but firm says little available.
African nations tighten Ebola travel bans

Chad and South Africa beef up restrictions on infected countries despite warnings of possible food shortages.
Ebola epidemic to take six months to control

Medical charity says extraordinary measures needed to contain killer disease stalking several West African nations.
Nigeria trains 800 volunteers to fight Ebola

Move follows appeal to make up for shortage of medical personnel due to doctors' strike over pay.
Canada sends trial Ebola vaccine to W Africa

North American country sends up to a thousand doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine to be distributed in West Africa.
Ebola outbreak: We need information, not panic

Spreading panic will not help efforts to curb the Ebola outbreak in Africa.

By Nanjala Nyabola
Ebola: Shattering lives in Sierra Leone

As the death toll rises, fearful communities in Sierra Leone are torn apart by the Ebola virus.

By Tommy Trenchard