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1. Africa: Senegal's Young Revolutionaries Now Face the Old African Curse

   [allAfrica] Africa has seen this before: The revolutionary brothers who once shared prison cells, campaign stages, liberation trenches and political slogans eventually arrive at the same destination: the brutal crossroads of power.

2. Congo-Kinshasa: WHO Chief Calls for Urgent Ebola Action and Pandemic Preparedness

   [UN News] The recent Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks demonstrate that the world is still vulnerable to rapidly spreading infectious diseases, Tedros Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), warned on Saturday at the close of the 79th World Health Assembly in Geneva.

3. Senegal/Morocco: Senegal Football Fans Return Home After Royal Pardon for Cup of Nations Chaos

   [RFI] A group of Senegalese football supporters jailed in Morocco after the Africa Cup of Nations final descended into chaos over controversial calls returned home on Sunday, after being pardoned by the Moroccan king.

4. Senegal: Senegal's President Sacks PM, Dissolves Government After Months of Tension

   [Premium Times] Mr Sonko believed that President Faye was drifting away from the party's original agenda and had previously threatened to pull PASTEF out of government and return to the opposition.

5. Congo-Kinshasa: Ebola Outbreak in the DRC - Four Reasons It Will Be Hard to Contain

   [The Conversation Africa] By the second week of the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo it was already clear that containing the spread of the haemorrhagic disease was proving to be difficult.