More than 200 people were killed yesterday when an arms dump exploded in Brazzaville, ripping apart a nearby neighbourhood in the Congo Republic’s capital, medical and local authorities said.

A TROUPE of pygmy musicians performing at a music festival in the Congo Republic were made to live at the zoo before being provided with accommodation in a local school.

FIVE people have died from the deadly Ebola virus in southern Sudan and a Russian researcher also died after sticking herself with a needle containing the virus.