Biafra shutdown cripples Nigerian cities
Craig TaylorShops are closed and cars are off the roads as secessionists mark the attempt to create Biafra state. BBC News – Africa
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Mozambique ‘jihadists behead’ villagers
Security has been stepped up recently after Islamist militant attacks in the resource-rich region. BBC News – Africa
Mamoudou Gassama: Mali ‘spiderman’ wows France with Paris child rescue
President Macron is to thank a Malian man who saved a child dangling from a fourth-floor Paris balcony. BBC News – Africa
Migrant crisis: Smugglers ‘shot escaping migrants’ in Libya
People smugglers opened fire on 100 migrants trying to flee their clutches, an aid agency reports. BBC News – Africa
Why DR Congo is confident it will halt Ebola
Despite its vast size and dilapidated health system, DR Congo is confident that it can contain the current outbreak of Ebola, which is thought to have killed 27 people. BBC News – Africa
Ebola outbreak in DR Congo: Patients ‘taken to church’
Two of the three patients who were taken from the treatment centre for prayers have died. BBC News – Africa