At least 11 people have been killed and eight more kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in an overnight attack on a village in northern Cameroon near the Nigerian border.

Three soldiers and 123 Boko Haram militants have been killed during a series of fierce clashes between the Chadian army and members of the Nigeria-based Boko Haram Takfiri militant group in northern Cameroon.

West African countries still have a long way to go to beat back the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, a senior UN official says.

The World Health Organization has announced a decline in new Ebola cases and some progress against the disease, with the death toll approaching 5,000 in West Africa.

The deadly Ebola disease could become the "definitive humanitarian disaster of our generation", the charity organization Oxfam says.

The death toll from the Ebola epidemic in West Africa has increased to almost 950, prompting most countries in the region to enforce states of emergency to contain its spread.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says the death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has reached 518.

West African countries have mobilized against an epidemic of hemorrhagic fevers including Ebola, which has claimed dozens of lives in the region.

The interior minister says Nigeria has deported 22,000 illegal migrants to neighboring countries in a crackdown related to an Islamic uprising in the northeast.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have warned about the threatening "humanitarian emergency" crisis in West Africa's Sahel region.

Despite great progress within a short time, the 29 French-speaking countries of sub-Saharan Africa are lagging far behind other states in the region in the battle against HIV/AIDS and need a massive increase in international aid, according to a United Nations report issued today.

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Ghana on Sunday confirmed that it has arrested the spokesman of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo, but said no decision has been made on whether he would be extradited.

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West African leaders met in the Ivory Coast capital Friday in a bid to end the crisis in Mali, where rebel groups have seized the north as the government struggles in the wake of a coup.

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Liberia on Saturday extradited 41 Ivory Coast nationals for their role in last year's bloody post-electoral violence in the neighbouring West African nation.