Ebola workers killed in the DRC

Three health workers fighting to curb the spread of the Ebola virus in the eastern region of DR Congo have been killed and four others critically injured after armed groups attack.

Still in Congo, a new national museum has been opened in Kinshasa to preserve the country's cultural heritage, with particular focus on artefacts in the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium.

A United Nation special rapporteur on the right to food has said the people of Zimbabwe are slowly getting to a point of suffering a man-made starvation, after a ten-day visit to the country.