Harrowing tales of fuel tanker fire survivors

>It was a story of a blessing-turned-curse for bodaboda riders and residents of Charambe roundabout along Kilwa road, when a lorry full of petrol overturned in the area, spewing off the black gold.

More than 60 people are killed, many burnt to death, after a fuel tanker crashed into a busy bus station in Onitsha, south-eastern Nigeria, officials say.

Libya warns of a "humanitarian disaster" after a massive fire at a fuel storage site in Tripoli, as fighting between rival militias continues.

Italy has offered to help extinguish a huge blaze that has engulfed the biggest fuel depot in the Libyan capital

A second fuel tank in the Libyan capital Tripoli has caught fire. Here's the story in 15 seconds.

Dr Stacey Mearns describes the "shocking" conditions at a hospital treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone in her first video diary for the BBC.

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No doubt acting out of curiosity, a reader emailed to ask me what the heading to this column, ‘Friendly Fire From Yesteryears,’ is intended to portray. How can fire be friendly, the fellow asked - perhaps bearing in mind such episodes as the Great Fire of London in 1666!

Dar es Salaam.  Key presidential aspirant Bernard Membe has finally broken his silence on the $20 million (Sh40 billion) Libyan debt. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation yesterday denied any wrongdoing in the transaction that involved a debt swap agreement between the two countries.