Algeria cut diplomatic relations with Morocco on Tuesday, citing what it called hostile actions by its most populous neighbour with which it has had strained relations for decades.

Guinean health officials are monitoring 172 contact cases of a man who died of Marburg virus, Health Minister Remy Lamah said yesterday.

The death toll from a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti has risen to 1,941 with more than 9,900 wounded, the Caribbean nation’s civil protection agency said on Tuesday.

A chief of staff to a senior politician in Libya’s capital who was abducted earlier this month by armed men has been freed, according to images broadcast by the interim government.

Forty-seven migrants are feared to have died off the coast of Mauritania after a boat was found drifting with seven survivors on board, an official with the UN’s migration agency said Tuesday.

The death toll from Haiti’s powerful earthquake jumped to over 1,200 yesterday, as crews desperately dug through collapsed buildings for survivors in the Caribbean nation still reeling from its president’s assassination.

Twenty-one people were killed on Sunday in a road accident in Nigeria’s northern Jigawa state, police said.

Gunmen have killed three people at an agricultural college in Nigeria’s northwest Zamfara state and kidnapped 20 others, including 15 students, the school said yesterday, in the latest in a wave of mass abductions.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday announced snap elections for September 20 to seek a new mandate to steer the nation’s pandemic exit, much to the dismay of his rival parties.

Nigerian authorities yesterday imposed a curfew in parts of central Plateau state, a day after a suspected Christian militia attacked a convoy of 90 Muslims, killing at least 23.

Algerian firefighters were struggling yesterday to put out 19 blazes in the north of the country, where 90 people were killed in wildfires this week.

Libyan authorities have shut water supplies to swathes of the country after gunmen demanding the release of a jailed Gaddafi-era official threatened to sabotage the water network.

Ivory Coast’s first recorded case of deadly Ebola disease in nearly three decades is of “immense concern”, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Firefighters in northern Morocco are battling to put out two forest blazes, a forestries official said yesterday as the North African kingdom swelters in a heatwave.

The death toll in Haiti’s powerful earthquake jumped to over 700 yesterday as crews desperately dug through collapsed buildings for survivors in the Caribbean nation still reeling from its president’s assassination.

Malaysia’s embattled leader will offer his resignation to the king today, a minister said, potentially spelling an end to his 17-month-old government and plunging the country into fresh turmoil.  

Attackers killed 22 commuters on a road near the capital of Nigeria's Plateau state, a morgue attendant told Reuters, in the latest outbreak of violence across Africa's most populous nation in which scores of civilians have been killed this year.

blistering heatwave for dozens of blazes that have raged across the country’s north since Monday, but experts have also criticised authorities for failing to prepare for the annual phenomenon.

A major earthquake killed at least 29 people in southwestern Haiti yesterday, reducing churches, hotels and homes to rubble in the latest tragedy to hit the impoverished Caribbean nation already mired in humanitarian and political crises. 

Canada plans to resettle more than 20,000 vulnerable Afghans including women leaders, human rights workers and reporters to protect them from Taliban reprisals, Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said on Friday.