Third Ebola death confirmed in Mali

Mali says a two-year-old girl - believed to have recently visited Guinea - becomes the country's first person to be infected by the deadly virus.

>The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has released the results of the samples sent to Nairobi to establish the cause of the controversial death of Bertha Boniphace (25) who was hospitalized at Geita District Hospital, Geita Region for what was highly rumoured in Geita town that she was suffering from Ebola fever

A Malian nurse dies of Ebola, the second confirmed death in Mali, but officials say it is unrelated to the first case.

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The first two cases of Ebola are confirmed in Liberia, after spreading from Guinea where 78 people have died, prompting Senegal to close its border.

Mali says it is now free from the Ebola virus, after 42 days without a new case, the country's health minister says.

A woman who died on Saturday in northern Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola, officials have confirmed.