A SPREADING cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts at the weekend hoping to keep the disease from reaching the squalid camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince.

A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts hoping to keep the disease from reaching the squalid camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince.

Cameroon has freed two BBC journalists who had been detained by the military for six days on suspicion of spying in the disputed, oil-rich Bakassi peninsula.