Africa

Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed more than 3,000, the latest government data showed, as the disease is spreading at an unprecedented speed.

KAMPALA — Oyo Nyimba, a Ugandan king who became the world’s youngest ​reigning monarch when he took the crown in 1995, has died aged 34, the prime minister of his kingdom announced.

Six people who were deported by the United States to Liberia last week resisted getting off the plane and instead were sent to Equatorial Guinea, a person on the plane and a lawyer in contact with the six said Monday.

A mountainous heap of refuse collapsed at the largest landfill in Guinea ‘s capital of Conakry early Sunday, killing 30 people, according to the central government.

BUNIA, Congo — Congo has received more than 16,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine as the country grapples with the fastest Ebola outbreak in history, the country’s health minister said.

President Paul Biya returned Thursday to Cameroon after staying abroad for more than two months, which had raised concerns about the 93-year-old leader’s health and a possible power vacuum in the Central African country.

The United States on Thursday carried out its first deportation under an agreement for Liberia to accept up to 1,200 people who are not from the African country, one of the Trump administration’s largest efforts yet to deport people to countries other than their own.

Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States, authorities in the West African country said Tuesday, in one of the largest such arrangements under the Trump administration’s broader crackdown on immigration.

In the Abyei region between Sudan and South Sudan, U.S. surgeon Dr. Lloyd Williams and a team of medics performed hundreds of cataract surgeries.

KAMPALA — Uganda international David Owori, captain of ​one of the country’s biggest soccer clubs, has died after an assault in the capital Kampala, police said.