Ebola global security threat - Obama

President Barack Obama told the UN than the spread of Ebola in Africa represented a "threat to regional and global security".

The UN Security Council declares the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a threat to international peace and security.

Libya's collapse since the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi has turned it into a potential security threat to the UK, the Foreign Affairs Committee says.

>Security has been heightened in different parts of the country following reports of a planned terrorist attack using a vehicle laden with improvised explosive devices.

US President Barack Obama gives South Africa 60 days to remove barriers to US farm produce or face sanctions in a long-running row over chicken exports.

The Middle East’s driest winter in several decades could pose a threat to global food prices, with local crops depleted and farmers’ livelihoods blighted, UN experts and climatologists say.

After visiting Kenya, the country of his father’s birth, Obama is in the Ethiopian capital, the seat of the pan-African body, where he has already praised the country as a key partner in the war against Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab militants in Somalia

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Liberian officials appeal to medical staff not to strike over the risk fee paid to them for treating Ebola patients, as the health crisis continues.