A Sierra Leone woman who went on the run after testing positive for the highly-contagious Ebola virus has turned herself in, health officials say.

South Sudan's food crisis is now the worst in the world, the UN Security Council warns, urging donor nations for urgent action.

Search teams in Mali locate the second flight recorder on board Air Algerie flight AH5017, which crashed on Thursday killing 116 people.

Andrew Harding on how rumour turns to murder in CAR

The US temporarily evacuates staff from its embassy in the Libyan capital following clashes between rival militias, the state department says.

Entries into Nigeria are placed on red alert after the authorities confirm the first death from the Ebola virus in the commercial capital Lagos.