Abba Abashi a Liberian-Nigerian student in the Kenyan capital Nairobi has been speaking with the BBC about his efforts to maintain contact with family members in Liberia

A selection of photographs from around the African continent this week: A stall holder selling second-hand shoes looks on as a train moves through a slum area of Kenya#039;s capital, Nairobi, on Thursd...

Authorities say a top Sierra Leone doctor treating Ebola victims in the country has died from the disease. The death came amid the largest outbreak of the haemorrhagic disease in history, deaths blamed...

About 75 per cent of people contracting Ebola are women because they are often the primary care-givers, nurses and traders, health officials have said. The disease, which has claimed the lives of at le...

People infected in the West Africa Ebola outbreak can be offered untested drugs, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed. However, scarce supplies raise questions about who gets priority in th...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigerian health authorities acknowledged Tuesday that they did not immediately quarantine a sick airline passenger who later died of Ebola, announcing that eight health workers w...

ABUJA, Nigeria ? Authorities in Nigeria on Monday announced a second case of Ebola in Africa's most populous country, an alarming setback as the total death toll from the disease in several West Africa...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- The doctor who treated a man who flew to Nigeria and died of Ebola now has contracted the disease, authorities said Monday, presenting a dire challenge to Africa's most populous ...

Theophylline Mulbah has had a long journey to Tunisia, but hes found hope ? and music ? along the way.