Fifteen-minute Ebola test approved

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The British volunteer nurse William Pooley, who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone, has been given the experimental drug ZMapp.

The doctors choosing to test new vaccine for deadly virus

>Tanzania has the capacity to test the deadly Ebola virus that has sent shockwaves across the globe after killing more than 4,500 in West Africa where hundreds more are on death beds, The Citizen can report today.

Anne Soy reports on the Mali health workers receiving experimental doses of a new vaccine against Ebola.

The BBC's Tomi Oladipo has been speaking to people in Nigeria's most populous city Lagos as the authorities take measures to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.

>The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare is waiting for test results of samples sent to Nairobi to establish the controversial death of Bertha Boniphace, 25, who was admitted to Geita District Hospital in Geita Region, after wide speculations that she was suffering from Ebola.

>Fifteen Dar es Salaam residents including four police officers yesterday appeared before Kinondoni District Court charged with armed robbery involving money and property worth over Sh125 million.