West African nations neighbouring those hit by the Ebola epidemic — Mali, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Guinea Bissau — should prepare for the possible arrival of people carrying the deadly virus, said the World Health Organisation.

THE first night in this tropical land of The Gambia in West Africa we ate in the company of hundreds of white butterflies.

MORE than 300 Africans tore through a razor-wire fence separating Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Melilla yesterday, clashing with police in the latest wave of undocumented immigrants seeking a foothold in Europe.

According to the UN, all the apes gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orang-utans face a very high risk of extinction within 50 years at most.