Much of the reporting around ebola is rife with rumours and misconceptions,writes Fiona McLysaght.

A cargo plane owned by a private company crashed near the airport in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, killing at least three people, officials said.

More than 200 people were killed when a fire at a weapons depot sparked a series of explosions in the capital of the Republic of Congo today.

Blasts rocked the capital of the Republic of Congo today after a weapons depot caught fire.

HEINEKEN, the third-largest brewer in the world, sold more beer at higher prices in the third quarter than a year earlier, helped by stronger African markets and a rebound in Russia to report surprise increases in volumes and revenue.

Libyan rebels, backed forcefully by European leaders, rejected a ceasefire proposal by African mediators because it did not insist that Muammar Gaddafi relinquish power.

Ghana is poised to begin pumping oil for the first time, kicking off a lucrative new industry expected to bring a billion US dollars annually to a part of the world where most people still get by on less than two dollars a day.

West Brom manager Roberto di Matteo felt his team got their just reward for an outstanding performance at Everton this afternoon.

At least 60 people died when a train went off the rails and into a ravine in the Republic of Congo today.

AN Irish citizen has been killed in a plane crash in central Africa.

Search teams today found the wreckage of a small plane that disappeared over the weekend carrying 11 people including one Irish man, a spokesman for Cameroon’s government said.

Opposition calls for a voter boycott in the Republic of Congo’s presidential election appeared to be cutting into the turnout, but it was unclear how it would affect long-time president Denis Sassou-Nguesso’s bid for another term.

The global financial chaos cast its shadow over a gloomy opening of the World Economic Forum today.

WILDLIFE researchers said yesterday they have discovered 125,000 western lowland gorillas deep in the forests of the Republic of Congo, calling it a major increase in the animal’s estimated population.

A Chadian court sentenced six French aid workers to eight years of forced labour after convicting them of trying to kidnap 103 African children.

Most of the 103 African “orphans” a French charity tried to fly to Europe from Chad appear to have at least one living parent, it emerged today.

DISASTERS killed 100,000 people throughout the world last year and much of it came about through severe neglect.

AN EBOLA plague is killing thousands of gorillas and driving the great apes to extinction, researchers warned yesterday.

French fighter jets bombed two rebel-held towns in the Central African Republic today, forcing rebels to pull troops out of one of them after fighting with government forces, officials said.

A hearing on vote fraud charges will be delayed and continue in a new location in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa after part of the country’s supreme court caught fire yesterday amid gunfire and street fighting among supporters of the runner-up, officials said today.

Sudan has agreed in principle to allow a joint United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force into Darfur.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan arrived in South Africa today at the start of a two-week tour of five African nations.

Premiership stars Pape Bouba Diop and Henri Camara helped Senegal come from behind to beat Guinea 3-2 and book an African Nations Cup semi-final against hosts Egypt, 4-1 victors over Democratic Republic of Congo.

IT was a tale of two strikers at the African Nations Cup yesterday one who covered himself in glory and the other in shame.

FOR the first time, biologists have documented gorillas in the wild using simple tools, such as poking a stick in a swampy pool of water to check its depth.

BURREN ENERGY set up by Irish businessman Finian O’Sullivan, has signed a deal with SNPC, the state-owned national oil company of the Republic of Congo, to allow SNPC take part in a production sharing agreement in the region.

Iran’s executions of teenage offenders last week violated international law, a New York-based human rights group has said.

A TOWN at the centre of an outbreak of Ebola in The Republic of Congo has been cordoned off but the number of cases of the deadly disease had not changed, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official said on Thursday.

The world’s population will increase by 40% to 9.1 billion in 2050, but virtually all the growth will be in the developing world, especially in the 50 poorest countries, the United Nations Population Division said.

THE AFRICAN Nations Cup begins tomorrow without two of its perennial contenders as well as a clutch of big-name players.

BUSINESSMAN Finian O’Sullivan will net €12 million when his exploration company Burren Energy floats on the stock exchange later this week.

An outbreak of the Ebola virus has spread to the Republic of Congo.

The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Laurent Kabila, has died from gunshot wounds after being shot by his bodyguard during an attempted coup.

Congo's embattled President Laurent Kabila was shot and wounded by one of his own bodyguards during an attempted coup d'etat, a senior security official says.

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo was hit by gunfire during an attempted coup, officials in neighbouring Republic of Congo say.