Scientists find a new way to prevent malaria

Researchers from the US say that trials involving a fungus and a toxin from an Australian spider's venom have safely reduced mosquito populations by more than ninety nine per cent.

Plus in Guinea, Prime Minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana says his cabinet is in favour of a proposed referendum that could lead to an amendment of the country's constitution.

And in Sierra Leone, tensions have risen outside the main opposition party’s headquarters in Freetown. This is after a High Court ruled that ten of it’s MPs elected last year should lose their seats.