DAKAR( Reuters)-The third Ebola patient in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo has died, the World Health Organization( WHO) said on Friday, the latest fatality in an outbreak first reported last month. The 48-year-old man was the most recent confirmed case in Congo's 14th outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever, which has hit the city of Mbandaka, the capital of Equateur province. Health workers started Ebola vaccinations last week and have since inoculated over 350 people, of which more than 250

ABUJA( Reuters)-West Africa's main regional bloc, ECOWAS, has rejected a proposal by Niger's military junta to hold elections within three years, extending a political impasse that could trigger a military intervention if no agreement is reached following a July coup. ECOWAS and other international powers have been seeking diplomatic solutions to the July 26 putsch in Niger, the seventh in West and Central Africa in three years. But after several attempts for dialogue were rejected, the bloc-whi

ABUJA( Reuters)-West Africa's main regional bloc, ECOWAS, has rejected a proposal by Niger's military junta to hold elections within three years, extending a political impasse that could trigger a military intervention if no agreement is reached following a July coup. ECOWAS and other international powers have been seeking diplomatic solutions to the July 26 putsch in Niger, the seventh in West and Central Africa in three years. But after several attempts for dialogue were rejected, the bloc-whi